Ahmed Raba'
- Nature of Work
- Academic
- Profession
- Associate Professor
- Email Address
- [email protected]
Ahmed Raba'
- Nature of Work
- Academic
- Profession
- Associate Professor
- Email Address
- [email protected]
- Course Title
- Design of English Language Tests
- Course Number
- 1/473521
- Instructor Name
- Ahmed Raba'
- Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Semester(s) and academic year(s)
-
First Semester 2021
First Semester 2020 - Compulsory / Elective
- Elective
The course aims at introducing students to detailed studies of tests their classifications, different ways of correction, some of the key principles that must be followed on the assessment of English language tests types of tests and testing the different language skills and sub-skills including tests of listening, speaking, writing and reading. The course aims at introducing students to detailed studies of tests their classifications, different ways of correction, some of the key principles that must be followed on the assessment of English language tests types of tests and testing the different language skills and sub-skills including tests of listening, speaking, writing and reading.Texts
Develop awareness of the function of evaluation and testing
- Develop a clear understanding between the setting of goals, specific objectives, classroom teaching practices, and evaluating the learners’ performance.
-Develop the ability to write and administer classroom tests for the purpose of evaluating the learners’ learning advancement in regard to the different language skills and sub-skills
-Acquire arrange of practical teaching ideas and material.
-Identify effective techniques and strategies employed in testing
1-Identify principles, strategies, approaches, and theories they are employed in testing and evaluating foreign and second language learning.
2. Write examples of different language tests.
3- Develop their own skills in constructing different exams in regard to different rubrics and tables of instructions
4-Criticize local and regional exams with reference to the characteristics of a good test.
5- Use technology implementations in testing the different language skills.
6-Select and use standardized tests for the purpose of diagnosis of students’ learning problems as well as determining the following:
6. a students’ proficiency in the language skills and sub-skills
6. b students’ attitude towards the FL
6. c students’ performance in specific areas in the foreign language learning
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://ww
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://ww
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
Germy Harmer, 2013 How to Teach English: An Introduction to the Practice of English Language Teaching,.
Greg S Goodman 2010, Educational Psychology: Reader. The Art and Science of How People Learn. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc New York USA.
Software resources
Standards-based Accountability: Ten Suggestions
http://www.cresst.org/products/newsletters/policypaper.pdf
Wondering What to Think About All These Tests?
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/160/track/print
Building a Workable Accountability System
http://www.WestEd.org/online_pubs/kn-01-03.pdf
Classroom Assessment and the Pursuit of Illuminating Feedback
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/images/nwteacher/winter2002/classroom.pdf
For more specific information about test validity:
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
w2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
w2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/validity.htm
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/Instrument%20Reliability%20and%20Validity/Validity.htm
http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)
For information on the relationship between reliability and validity:
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/relandval.php
| Activity | Percent (%) |
|---|---|
| Presentation activity: summarize a full chapter | 20% |
| Two Moodle Activities 10 marks for each activity plus class participation and attendance | 30% |
| Reserrach seminars and their defense in addition to virtual participation on the zoom all through the semester | 50% |