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TitleInterpersonal Assessment Ideas for Different Proficiency Levels
SourceCASLS Activity of the Week
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by Paul Sandrock, ACTFL Director of Education

This week's Topic of the Week discusses guidelines for making the assessment of interpersonal communication authentic. Here are suggestions for assessment tasks for different proficiency levels.

Targeting the Proficiency Level: Interpersonal Assessments

Novice

Intermediate

Intermediate High/Advanced

Collaboration: Students develop a survey to investigate the eating habits of the class, interview students, and discuss the results to create a graph.

Storytelling: Students collaborate to retell a familiar story and prepare to present it to their classmates.

Debate: Circulate in the room to find students who have the most similar ideas to your ideas on a debate topic; the resulting small groups work together to create the main points they will make in a debate.

Recipes:  Students browse online recipes and work in pairs to change ingredients to healthier alternatives.

Agreement:  Students exchange text messages to determine who has the busiest week.

Consensus:  Students examine a blog about a news event in the target language country; identify what new information they discover and collaborate to post a reply.

Introductions:  Practice the first night at your host family’s home:  introduce yourself, show your photos, and ask questions of each other’s family and home.

Presentation:  Plan and practice giving a tour of your school for the group of visiting students.  What differences do you need to highlight?

Making Plans:  Organize the plan for a day in a new city, agreeing on what to do first, second and last.

Analysis:  Is it worth it to be famous?  With your partner, identify as many advantages and disadvantages as you can.

Discussion:  How do you change stereotypes?  With your partner, examine any ideas about the target culture that have changed during your study of their language; try to identify what caused a change.

Publishdate2015-03-02 02:15:01