Learning Outcomes
Βy the end of this course students should be able to design an evaluation program and to implement its parts. In addition, they should have understood the basic principles underling the evaluation
In particular, students should be able to:
a) Set the goals of an evaluation procedure according to the current curriculum and being conscious of its relation.
b) Choose the evaluation type they need to use on the base of their underling goals
c) Design and implement a test
d) Measuring the difficulty and the discrimination index for the items of a test
e) Test data processing
f) Test data analysis in order to arrive to conclusions regarding the test objectives and the basic pedagogical principles
Course Content (Syllabus)
a) The relation between curriculum aims and student's performance evaluation
b) The evaluation meaning
c) Basic evaluation typologies
d) Test typologies
e) Error analysis
f) Information gathering tools
g) Item analysis
h) Close and open item rating
i) Descriptive analysis measures for calculating the cendral tendency, the dispersion and the correlation
Keywords
syllabus, curriculum, syllabus, curriculum, student evaluation, test program, test data analysis
Additional bibliography for study
Porcelli G., 1998. Educazione linguistica e valutazione. Torino: UTET
McNamara, T., 2000. Language Testing. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press
Κασσωτάκης, Μ., 1994. Η αξιολόγηση της επιδόσεως των μαθητών. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Γρηγόρη