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| Title | STAMP 2 pilot update: A reward for participation |
| Body | From: "Sachiko Kamioka" The Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) once again would like to invite Japanese teachers to participate in the pilot study of STAMP 2, integrated online proficiency assessment of all four skills. As a reward for your participation in the pilot and answering a short survey at the end of the pilot, we would like to provide you with a free 2004/2005 academic year subscription to ClassPak, Language Learning Solution's online proficiency-based instruction and assessment tool. http://www.onlinells.com/onlinells/products/classpak/ We hope STAMP 2 will contribute to the field by making proficiency assessment easy and affordable. The first step is to verify the items to ensure that they are reliable and valid. We welcome you to review STAMP 2 and consider giving the test to your students as a part of our pilot. The pilot will continue till the end of FEBURUARY. TO TAKE A LOOK AT STAMP 2: 1. From your Internet browser, go to http://www.languageassessment.net 2. Log in using user name: pilotv4-test and password: 3210 IMPORTANT NOTE: - This user name is *NOT* FOR YOUR STUDENTS TO TAKE THE TEST. You need to contact us to get user names for your students. - This user name will give you access to items at Novice-high and Intermediate-low level only. If you encounter any technical problems, go to the Computer Compatibility Test Page at http://www.languageassessment.net/language/japanesecheck/ 3. To see test result page, log off and log back in using user name: pilotv4-teacher and password 7415 In addition to helping the field develop a better way to measure student performance, having your students participate in the pilot will help them understand what they have to do to be proficient in Japanese. STAMP 2 is innovative both pedagogically and technically. Real-life tasks assess interpretive and presentational modes in the national standards. The interpretive section (listening and reading) is computer adaptive and its results become available immediately after test. Presentational mode (speaking and writing) sections are graded by human graders. The test uses streaming video and technology to record and deliver sound files over the Internet. To take the test, students just need a recent browser and Quicktime, both of which are installed many of computers or can be downloaded for free. In this pilot, we would like to get data on listening, reading, and speaking items from Novice-Mid to Intermedite-High. If you are interested, please email us at jppilot@darkwing.uoregon.edu. Spanish STAMP 2 is also being piloted. Spread your word to your Spanish colleagues.They can email us at sppilot@darkwing.uoregon.edu. Kumi Hatano Japanese STAMP 2 pilot coordinator ----------------------------- Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) The Northwest National Foreign Language Resource Center 5290 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5290 Phone: 541-346-5699 Fax: 541-346-0322 http://CASLS.uoregon.edu |
| Source | CASLS |
| Inputdate | 2004-01-23 15:50:00 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2004-01-23 15:50:00 |
| Expdate | 2004-02-29 00:00:00 |
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