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From:  http://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2020/assess.html

Assessing Language Learners’ Communication Skills via Authentic Communicative Performance Tasks

July 13-17, 2020

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

After learning how to design communicative tasks, develop rubrics, and evaluate student performance on a variety of tasks, participants will develop their own standards-based Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA). By the end of the institute, participants will be able to:

• Compare characteristics of performance and proficiency as they relate to the meaning of “performance towards proficiency” in the world language classroom;
• Design receptive and productive communicative tasks for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of proficiency;
• Identify commonalities among the ACTFL, CEFR, and WIDA performance descriptors for world language and ESL learning contexts;
• Evaluate the quality of several performance assessment tasks and rubrics, making suggestions for improvement as appropriate;
• Create formative assessments used in daily lessons to monitor learner progress in communication skills; and
• Design a standards-based integrated performance assessment (IPA) with appropriate rubrics and scoring guides.

Presenter: Donna Clementi (Lawrence University, Wisconsin)

• Find out more about Assessing Language Learners’ Communication:  http://carla.umn.edu/institutes/2020/assess.html 
• Register by the Early Bird Deadline: April 24, 2020:  http://carla.umn.edu/institutes/registration.html

Join us for the 25th annual CARLA Summer Institute Program in 2020!