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The Control, Content, and Consequences of edTPA: World Language Teacher Educators' Perceptions
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Hildebrandt, Susan A.; Swanson, Pete – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Implemented in almost 900 teacher education programs across 41 states and the District of Columbia, edTPA is marketed as a content-specific, standardized portfolio assessment of beginning teacher performance. However, concerns about edTPA and its content specificity are pervasive. To that end, the researchers surveyed teacher educators with World…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
University Students' Perceptions of Integrated Performance Assessment and the Connection between Classroom Learning and Assessment
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Zapata, Gabriela C. – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
In 2013, Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) was adopted at all levels of instruction at a private university in southern California. The study reports the opinions of 1,236 Novice, Intermediate Low, and Intermediate Mid Spanish students concerning IPA and their perceptions of the way in which classroom instruction was reflected in the content…
Descriptors: Spanish, College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Proficiency
Assessing the Assessments: The OPI and the SOPI.
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Kuo, Jane; Jiang, Xixiang – Foreign Language Annals, 1997
An overall examination of the two forms of oral proficiency testing currently in use in most language teaching programs across the country: the oral proficiency interview and the simulated oral proficiency interview. Test administration, response elicitation, and rating procedures are examined comparatively, and a general overview of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Interviews, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
An Analysis of Foreign Language Achievement Test Drafts
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Barrette, Catherine – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
In order to obtain concrete information to improve test writing, this study analyzes 13 achievement test drafts written by graduate teaching assistants, lecturers, and adjunct faculty teaching introductory and intermediate college Spanish. The analysis focuses on factors of test method and content likely to create variance in test performance…
Descriptors: Scoring, Teaching Assistants, College Faculty, Achievement Tests
Developing Practical Speaking Tests for the Foreign Language Classroom: A Small Group Approach.
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Robison, Robert E. – Foreign Language Annals, 1992
The Columbus, Ohio, Public Schools Level I Foreign Language Oral Assessment Project is reported. Using a small-group or team approach, the oral production of large numbers of students can be evaluated quickly and efficiently with brief, real-life examples from the body of tasks students have previously been assigned. (18 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Language Tests, Oral Language
The Minnesota Articulation Project and Its Proficiency-Based Assessments.
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Chalhoub-Deville, Micheline – Foreign Language Annals, 1997
Reports on the Minnesota Articulation Project, providing an overview of the projects' three principal working groups: political action, curriculum, and assessment. The article then outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the proficiency-based assessment instruments developed in French, German, and Spanish and describes in detail the content and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), French, German, Language Proficiency