Application exercises

A. Examine a language program that you are familiar with. What types of decisions are made in the program? What types of assessment procedures are applied to each of the decisions?

B. Look at the syllabus for a particular course in some language program with which you are familiar.

1. What areas of the syllabus are appropriate for the development and application of Criterion-referenced tests? Sketch an outline for the overall test design.

2. For this syllabus, what view of instructional objectives is taken? How does this view affect the way in which Criterion-referenced tests can be developed?

C. Look at the information in Figure 2.2. Specify how you would write an assessment procedure for the context.

D. Look at the scoring grid in Figure 2.4. Clearly, that grid was designed by a specific group of teachers for a specific curriculum at UCLA. What major categories would you change in adapting such a grid to a curriculum you are familiar with? What wording changes would you make in the descriptors inside of the grid?