The principles of ESL Assessment

Dear all,

          The English as a second language assessment is required of all new first time college student who wish to enroll in an ESL course for the first time.

Ø What is assessment?

Assessment means the act making a judgment about something or the act of assessing something.

Ø What is the Purpose of ESL Assessment?

The Purpose of ESL Assessment is to assess student’s reading and writing skill. Results will inform them if they are ready to undertake college level work, if they need to further develop their skills. Based on result they will be placed into a level of ESL or English appropriate to take their skill level. In this manner student’s probability of success will be increased.

          For ESL Assessment we have to know about its main principles. ESL Assessment have 5 main principles. Let’s see it in depth.

v PRACTICALITY:

First what is the practicality?

Practicality means relating to what is real rather than to possible or imagined or appropriate or suited for actual use.

Practicality is the first principle of ESL Assessment. It is related with the reality. That is related to natural world, beyond the textbook or out of the classroom. Practicality refers to tests that should be true. A practical teat considers not only the limitation of budget and time, but also has clear administration, scoring and interpretation. It has a scoring or evaluation procedure that is specific and time efficient.

v Reliability:

Reliability means the extent to which an experiment test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials. In simple language DEPENDABILITY. Reliability refers to test that are consistent and dependable. Students or groups of target students are given the same test result would be similar. For test takers they are not ambiguous to a given field to study. Also, a reliable test not only gives learners clear directions but also offers administration rubrics for grading or evaluation.

v VALIDITY:

Validity means acceptable according to the law or a fair or reasonable. Compared to reliability, validity talks about a test which “is valid if it is measured what is supposed to measure” and when it is used for the purpose of assessment. A valid test should measure according to its purpose, but not “irrelevant or contaminating variables.” Thus, a test’s meaningful information for criterion, and evidence of performance should be considered in order to measure a student’s learning ability. Furthermore, there are many ways to measure the validity of a test, including content validity, construct validity, criterion related validity and face validity.

v Authenticity:

Authenticity means real or genuine, not copied or false. Authenticity emphasizes that language is natural, contextualized and meaningful. Besides, authenticity offers language theme based organization, story line or episode to reproduce real world tasks.

v Wash back:

In simple language wash back means give feedback. It is the last principle of ESL Assessment. Wash back which refers to “criterion for the test is influenced of the form and the content of the test” in the classroom. This is also the effect of testing on teaching and learning. Wash back generally refers to the effect the tests have on instruction in terms of how students prepare for the test. Formal test can also have positive wash back, but they provide no wash back if the students receive a simple letter grade or a single overall numerical score. 

The principles of ESL Assessment

Dear all,

          The English as a second language assessment is required of all new first time college student who wish to enroll in an ESL course for the first time.

Ø What is assessment?

Assessment means the act making a judgment about something or the act of assessing something.

Ø What is the Purpose of ESL Assessment?

The Purpose of ESL Assessment is to assess student’s reading and writing skill. Results will inform them if they are ready to undertake college level work, if they need to further develop their skills. Based on result they will be placed into a level of ESL or English appropriate to take their skill level. In this manner student’s probability of success will be increased.

          For ESL Assessment we have to know about its main principles. ESL Assessment have 5 main principles. Let’s see it in depth.

v PRACTICALITY:

First what is the practicality?

Practicality means relating to what is real rather than to possible or imagined or appropriate or suited for actual use.

Practicality is the first principle of ESL Assessment. It is related with the reality. That is related to natural world, beyond the textbook or out of the classroom. Practicality refers to tests that should be true. A practical teat considers not only the limitation of budget and time, but also has clear administration, scoring and interpretation. It has a scoring or evaluation procedure that is specific and time efficient.

v Reliability:

Reliability means the extent to which an experiment test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials. In simple language DEPENDABILITY. Reliability refers to test that are consistent and dependable. Students or groups of target students are given the same test result would be similar. For test takers they are not ambiguous to a given field to study. Also, a reliable test not only gives learners clear directions but also offers administration rubrics for grading or evaluation.

v VALIDITY:

Validity means acceptable according to the law or a fair or reasonable. Compared to reliability, validity talks about a test which “is valid if it is measured what is supposed to measure” and when it is used for the purpose of assessment. A valid test should measure according to its purpose, but not “irrelevant or contaminating variables.” Thus, a test’s meaningful information for criterion, and evidence of performance should be considered in order to measure a student’s learning ability. Furthermore, there are many ways to measure the validity of a test, including content validity, construct validity, criterion related validity and face validity.

v Authenticity:

Authenticity means real or genuine, not copied or false. Authenticity emphasizes that language is natural, contextualized and meaningful. Besides, authenticity offers language theme based organization, story line or episode to reproduce real world tasks.

v Wash back:

In simple language wash back means give feedback. It is the last principle of ESL Assessment. Wash back which refers to “criterion for the test is influenced of the form and the content of the test” in the classroom. This is also the effect of testing on teaching and learning. Wash back generally refers to the effect the tests have on instruction in terms of how students prepare for the test. Formal test can also have positive wash back, but they provide no wash back if the students receive a simple letter grade or a single overall numerical score. 

The principles of ESL Assessment

Dear all,

          The English as a second language assessment is required of all new first time college student who wish to enroll in an ESL course for the first time.

Ø What is assessment?

Assessment means the act making a judgment about something or the act of assessing something.

Ø What is the Purpose of ESL Assessment?

The Purpose of ESL Assessment is to assess student’s reading and writing skill. Results will inform them if they are ready to undertake college level work, if they need to further develop their skills. Based on result they will be placed into a level of ESL or English appropriate to take their skill level. In this manner student’s probability of success will be increased.

          For ESL Assessment we have to know about its main principles. ESL Assessment have 5 main principles. Let’s see it in depth.

v PRACTICALITY:

First what is the practicality?

Practicality means relating to what is real rather than to possible or imagined or appropriate or suited for actual use.

Practicality is the first principle of ESL Assessment. It is related with the reality. That is related to natural world, beyond the textbook or out of the classroom. Practicality refers to tests that should be true. A practical teat considers not only the limitation of budget and time, but also has clear administration, scoring and interpretation. It has a scoring or evaluation procedure that is specific and time efficient.

v Reliability:

Reliability means the extent to which an experiment test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials. In simple language DEPENDABILITY. Reliability refers to test that are consistent and dependable. Students or groups of target students are given the same test result would be similar. For test takers they are not ambiguous to a given field to study. Also, a reliable test not only gives learners clear directions but also offers administration rubrics for grading or evaluation.

v VALIDITY:

Validity means acceptable according to the law or a fair or reasonable. Compared to reliability, validity talks about a test which “is valid if it is measured what is supposed to measure” and when it is used for the purpose of assessment. A valid test should measure according to its purpose, but not “irrelevant or contaminating variables.” Thus, a test’s meaningful information for criterion, and evidence of performance should be considered in order to measure a student’s learning ability. Furthermore, there are many ways to measure the validity of a test, including content validity, construct validity, criterion related validity and face validity.

•  Authenticity:

Authenticity means real or genuine, not copied or false. Authenticity emphasizes that language is natural, contextualized and meaningful. Besides, authenticity offers language theme based organization, story line or episode to reproduce real world tasks.

 Wash back:

In simple language wash back means give feedback. It is the last principle of ESL Assessment. Wash back which refers to “criterion for the test is influenced of the form and the content of the test” in the classroom. This is also the effect of testing on teaching and learning. Wash back generally refers to the effect the tests have on instruction in terms of how students prepare for the test. Formal test can also have positive wash back, but they provide no wash back if the students receive a simple letter grade or a single overall numerical score.