ELT846

6 ECTS - 3-0 Duration (T+A)- . Semester- 3 National Credit
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Goal, Content & Resources
Course Learning Outcomes
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
Week Plan
Student Workload - ECTS

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Code ELT846
Name
Semester . Semester
Duration (T+A) 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week)
ECTS 6 ECTS
National Credit 3 National Credit
Teaching Language İngilizce
Level Doktora Dersi
Type Normal
Mode of study Yüz Yüze Öğretim
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Course Goal

This course tries to explore current trends in testing and assessment in connection with education and foreign language policymaking in Turkey.

Course Content

Introduction to critical language testing and assessment: tests, and accountability,, new trends in language assessment, teachers designing their own tests and assessments:, issues to keep in examining the array of alternatives in teacher-based assessment: A multiplism perspective.

Course Precondition

Testing and assessment

Resources

McNamara, T. (2008). The socio-political and power dimensions of tests, In E. Shohamy and N. H. Hornberger (Eds), Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd ed., Volume 7: Language Testing and Assessment, 415–427. 1. Brown, D. H. (2004). Chapter 1 & 2: Testing, assessing and teaching. In Language assessment: Principles and classroom practices. New York: Longman.

Notes

Gipps, C. (1999). Socio-Cultural Aspects of Assessment. Review of Research in Education, 24, 355-392.


Course Learning Outcomes

Order Course Learning Outcomes
LO01 Terminology building related to testing and assessment
LO02 Awareness raising on testing and assessment
LO03 Definition and terminology building
LO04 Designing assesment practices


Relation with Program Learning Outcome

Order Type Program Learning Outcomes Level
PLO01 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal The students can critically analyze language learning theories 3
PLO02 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal The students can develop themselves professionally 2
PLO03 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal The students can critically evaluate the research studies in the field
PLO04 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal The students can join in collaborative team work 2
PLO05 Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği The students can present his knowledge and share his experience in the field 3
PLO06 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı The students can think creatively to construct novice ideas 2
PLO07 Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği The students can apply scientific research methods in novel studies
PLO08 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal The students can be aware of the ethical issues in their research studies 3
PLO09 Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği The students can discuss their arguments with evidence 2
PLO10 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı The students can implement higher order thinking skills in solving problems
PLO11 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal The students can contribute to their fields by publishing their studies in journals 2
PLO12 Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği The students can contribute to the goal of becoming an intellectual community 3


Week Plan

Week Topic Preparation Methods
1 Introduction to the course and syllabus prior reading Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Soru-Cevap
2 Standards, tests, and accountability: A new orthodoxy in educational reform. prior reading Öğretim Yöntemleri:
Tartışma, Soru-Cevap
3 Talking about recent language and education reforms in Turkey in connection with testing and assessment prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
4 From standardized tests to teacher-based assessment and assessment for learning: Exploring the new trend and looking at what happens in our context prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Portfolyo
5 Looking at assessment practices around the counrty: advances, limitations, and challenges prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
6 Introduction to critical language testing and assessment: prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Portfolyo
7 Discussion of critical language testing and assessment as a response to current demands from students and educational communities and in reaction to standardized testing and accountability. prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
8 Mid-Term Exam Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
9 New trends in language assessment and testing prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
10 Discussion of current trends in language testing and assessment, including bilingual testing, critical approaches to the CEFR, and language testing of English as an international language prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
11 Teachers designing their own tests and assessments: Issues to keep in mind prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
12 Teachers designing their own tests: issues to keep in mind (practicability, validity, reliability, authenticity, and washback). prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
13 Examining different tests and assessments based on these principles prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
14 Examining the array of alternatives in teacher-based assessment: A multiplism perspective prior reading Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
15 Practical workshop on teachers designing language tests and assessments group work Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
16 Term Exams Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi
17 Term Exams Ölçme Yöntemleri:
Performans Değerlendirmesi


Student Workload - ECTS

Works Number Time (Hour) Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 3 42
Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 5 70
Assesment Related Works
Homeworks, Projects, Others 0 0 0
Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 15 15
Final Exam 1 30 30
Total Workload (Hour) 157
Total Workload / 25 (h) 6,28
ECTS 6 ECTS