Principles of Language Testing and Evaluation

3 crédits · Deuxième année

This course is designed to familiarize students with the different facets of testing and evaluation with a focus on the theoretical principles underlying testing and evaluation. Students will be acquainted with the following notions : Testing and evaluation, formative evaluation and summative evaluation, criterion-referenced interpretation and norm-referenced interpretation, assessment methods, analytic and holistic approaches, validity and reliability. Préalable 1 : DLA1017 TESL - Program and Practice at the Elementary School Level Préalable 2 : DLA1019 TESL - Program and Practice at the Secondary School Level