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| Title | Spanish assessment pilot program needs you |
| Body | ATTENTION COLLEGE-LEVEL SPANISH TEACHERS WITH SUMMER COURSES! Language Program Directors around the country have identified assessment and placement as key issues in managing language programs. Most of us would like to measure our students' proficiency and real-world language ability, but existing tests are so expensive and time-consuming that few of us can manage to fit them in. Now, the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon, is developing an integrated online assessment of speaking, listening, reading and writing. Having your students participate in a pilot version of this new assessment will help our profession develop a better way to measure student performance and will directly benefit your students by helping them to understand the skills they need in order to be proficient. We are looking for teachers willing to pilot this new online assessment immediately. The current pilot will run through the Summer. The test, called STAMP 2, measures interpretive (reading and listening) as well as presentational (speaking and writing) proficiency. The current pilot focuses on the interpretive mode given that we are researching the accuracy of reading and listening test questions. The test will take approximately one hour of your class time. STAMP 2 is innovative both pedagogically and technically. Real-life tasks assess student proficiency using national standards. The interpretive section is computer adaptive, and test results are available immediately after the test is completed. Human graders evaluate and grade presentational sections. This test uses streaming video and audio technology to record and deliver sound files over the Internet. To take the test, students need a recent browser and QuickTime, both of which can be downloaded for free. In this pilot, we would like to get data on listening, reading and speaking items for students in the Novice-Low to Intermediate-Mid proficiency range. If you are interested, please reply to: sppilot@uoregon.edu After receiving your reply, we will contact you immediately to answer any logistical or technical questions you have about STAMP 2 and to discuss possible dates for piloting at your institution. Thanks for considering participation in the pilot. Your collaboration is necessary to ensure that STAMP 2 becomes a reliable and valid measurement of proficiency. Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) The Northwest National Foreign Language Resource Center 5290 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5290 Telephone: 541.346.5699 Fax: 541.346.0322 CASLS. (17 May 2004). Spanish teachers needed for online assessment pilot. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (20 May 2004). |
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