Designing second language performance assessments

By John Michael Norris, Thom Hudson, James Dean Brown, et al.

This technical report focuses on the decision-making potential provided by second language performance assessments. The authors first situate performance assessment within a broader discussion of alternatives in language assessment and in educational assessment in general. Then they discuss issues in performance assessment design, implementation, reliability and validity. Finally, they present a prototype framework for second language performance assessment, based on the integration of theoretical underpinnings and research findings from the task-based language teaching literature, the language testing literature, and the educational measurement literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824821092
• ISBN13: 9780824821098
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: National Foreign Langauge Resource Center
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"