Web-based Assessment Tools for Effective Online Language Courses

Ke Peng | 彭珂kekepengpeng@gmail.com www.slideshare.net/kekepengpeng

Outline• Online Chinese Language Programs & Models– ChineseTeachers.com, GLOSS, – LearnNC.org

• Web-based Assessment Tools– LinguaFolio– Early Language Assessments of CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics)

• SOPA: Student Oral Proficiency Assessment (for Grades 2-8)• ELLOPA: Early Language Listening and Oral Proficiency Assessment

(for Grades PreK-2)• COPE: CAL Oral Proficiency Exam (for Grades 5-8)

– STAMP – …

Online Chinese Programs

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Online Chinese Programs-- Effective?

Assessment?

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Example | ChineseTeachers.com

• Personalized Lessons• Flexible• Audio Conversation /

Reading (Lesson Plans)• ? Visual / multimedia • ? Evaluation or Assessment• ? Consistence

Example | ChineseTeachers.com

Example | Global Language Online Support System Defensive Language Institute

http://gloss.dliflc.edu

• Searchable• Flexible• Multimedia• ? Assessment• ? Feedback• ? Varieties of

Topics

Online Chinese Programs: LearnNC.org

• ACTFL Session #47 | Creating a Model for Effective Online Language Courses

• the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill• innovative practices in K–12 education • materials available to all – mainly to teachers & students of North Carolina

Online Chinese Programs: LearnNC.org

Online Chinese Programs: LearnNC.org

Online Chinese Programs: LearnNC.org

Online Chinese Programs: LearnNC.org• 2006 FLAP grant for Level I & II• AP grant for LIII, IV & AP• 2007-08; 2008-09; 2009-10 (Pilot Course)• Enrollment: LI: 81; LII:21; … LIV:5

– Web-Conferencing: hire 2 native speakers; twice a week; meeting 3-4 students a time

Online Chinese Programs: LearnNC.org

• Instructional Designer collaborating with content Planner/ Teacherso Planning Content Modules Video Producingo Two 45-min sessions weeklyo Ongoing hiring/coaching/tutoring process

• Videos: o video shot o tied shot of face o audio clip for individuals to repeat

Online Chinese Programs: LearnNC.org• Coaching Rubrics:

Below the Expectations

Meet the Expectations

More than the Expectations

Fluency

Comprehension

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• Evaluation Data:o Speaking & Listening: video + audioo Culture: authentic resources onlineo Writing & Reading

• Illustration: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/mandarin1/4168

LinguaFolio: http://www.doe.virginia.gov/linguafolio/index.html Resources for using the LinguaFolio portfolio self-assessment system developed by the National Council of State Supervisors of Foreign Language for secondary school and university students. LinguaFolio Jr. http://www.doe.virginia.gov/linguafolio/junior.html

Example: http://www.doe.virginia.gov/linguafolio/checklist5.pdf

Online Assessment Tools: LinguaFolio

Online Resources for Language Assessment

• Early Language Assessments of CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics): www.cal.org/ela

• Foreign Language Assessments of CAL: www.cal.org/topics/ta/flassess.html & www.cal.org/flad

• Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA): http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/VAC/.html Assessment and rubric development resources and general assessment resources.

• Consortium for Assessing Performance Standards Rubrics: http://flenj.org/CAPS/?page=147 The rubrics that are found here were developed during the three years of this project and are based on the ACTFL Performance Guidelines for K-12 Learners.

• FAIRFAX County Public Schools: Performance Assessment for Language Students: http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/PALS/rubrics Examples of holistic and analytic rubrics, reflects K-12 Performance Guidelines Language.

• Languages Other Than English (LOTE)Center for Educator Development: http://www.sedl.org/loteced/lotelinks/general.html

• NOELLA: http://casls.uoregon.edu/noella.php Description of the National Online Early Language Learning Assessment from the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at the University of Oregon, including a free pilot.

• Creating games and quizzes online with Quia: http://www.quia.com/web • AVANT Assessment: http://www.avantassessment.com/education.html

– STAMP: A web-based, adaptive, multi-skill proficiency test based on national standards;

– ClassPak: A web-based instructional support tool that helps teachers build, deliver and manage reading, writing and speaking quizzes, lessons, and assignments throughout the year.

Online Resources for Language Assessment

Questions:o How to make an effective online language program? o How to assess students’ language proficiency and

acquisition?Suggestions:

1. Goal setting & Planning2. Technology use with Pedagogical Considerations3. Assessment & Evaluation4. Reports & Feedback