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How
Will I Know How Well My Students
Are Progressing Toward Achieving the Standards?
There are increasing numbers of assessment packages available
nationally to help teachers design proficiency-based, standards-based
assessment. Three you may want to watch for:
Performance
Assessment Units (ACTFL)
The new assessment package that has been under development and
piloting for the past several years at ACTFL is nearing completion.
Originally entitled PAU’s or Performance Assessment Units, they will be
retitled to reflect their roots in the learning-scenario approach to
language teaching and learning. These scenarios combine teaching and
assessment and enable teachers to use the same materials effectively with
a wide range of language abilities and knowledge in their students.
Watch for news at this site
about their availability!
Oregon
Oral Assessment Practice Kit
If you teach in Oregon or are interested in seeing what is
happening in Oregon, you might want to check out the Oregon Oral
Assessment Practice Kit. Developed and distributed by the Confederation in
Oregon for Language Teaching, the kit contains a handbook for classroom
use, a training manual tied to the Oregon benchmarks, practice-situation
grids and practice-situation cue cards. Available from COFLT at oic@willamette.edu.
Avant
Assessment
Avant
Assessment provides classroom tools and online assessment services
that support proficiency learning in reading and writing for French,
German, Japanese and Spanish. Developed at
the Center for Applied
Second Language Studies (CASLS), a National Foreign Language Resource
Center at the University of Oregon, these tools and services cover a full
range of needs for classroom teachers, school districts, and
institutions of higher education. Contact
Avant Assessment.
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