Measurement and Evaluation in Education (PDE 105) UNIT ONE: THE CONCEPTS OF TEST, MEASUREMENT, ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN EDUCATION

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Course description This is a foundation course on language testing for Indian ESL teachers who have to engage with tests and assessments as part of their teaching schedule. The course aims to introduce pre and in-service teachers with the key terms in tests and assessments, give a historical overview of development of English language tests and the critical issues involved in designing tests and evaluating learners in a valid and ethical manner. The course is also aimed at giving practical steps and techniques to design tests by fulfilling the five principles of assessment and train teachers to systematically evaluate and provide meaningful feedback to ESL learners. The course concludes with a discussion on the alternative ways of assessing to help teachers get a comprehensive view of ESL learners’ language capacities as closely related to their real life use of the second language. Course objectives • Introduce key terms of tests and assessment • Present the history of language tests as they developed in line with the major language teaching methods and approaches • Critically engage teachers to design valid and ethical tests • Prepare teachers to design and assess ESL learners in class • Introduce alternative methods of assessment for classroom purposes

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