Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Week 14: Assessing Language through ICTs


Based on the article: ASSESSING LANGUAGE USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
By: Dan Douglas and Volker Hegelheimer
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Computer-based second language assessment ca be use for assessing purposes and score of language tests.  Something I learned from this article and that every teacher should know was the benefit of computerization provide assessments and evaluations that can be shorter, better more efficient and suiter for students. Besides, in the article there is a part where it discusses Computer-Based Authoring Options, there a high variety of online web tool that can contain the CMSs (course management systems) and these have available some extensions depending on the language proficient. Adding to this part of the article one example of online sources where teacher can develop language test including responses type like
multiple-choice, multichoice, true-false, fill-ins, matching, and short answers using an exact-matching strategy is Moodle (http://www.moodle.org/). Some of the advantages of using CMS is they are developed to track where and when the learner log in the course, teachers can set periods of time to complete the assessment, teachers can set up the number of changes that students have to complete the task, and animation. Another CMS that really called my attention was
Discovery School’s Quiz Center (http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/ ) because like Moodle is a free online tool where teachers can create multiple-choice, short-answer, true/false, or essay-type test tasks. Something I want to remember from this article is all the online tools presented because they are free and very good option to replace paper based tests

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