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Assessment Literacy: Building a Base for Better Teaching and Learning
Rogler, Dawn
English Teaching Forum, v52 n3 p2-13 2014
This article presents principles and practices of effective assessment, outlining seven key concepts--usefulness, reliability, validity, practicality, washback, authenticity, and transparency--and demonstrating how to apply them in creating an exam blueprint. The article also discusses the importance of providing feedback after a test has been given, how to create an exam file for further reflection, and basic statistics for testing.
Descriptors: Testing, Student Evaluation, Validity, Reliability, Context Effect, Learning, Test Construction, Educational Objectives, Feedback (Response), Scoring, Pass Fail Grading, Planning, Item Analysis
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