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Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Assessment

Lesson 2: Indirect Assessment

Introduction
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
- Multiple Choice
- Fill-in-the-Blank
- Review and Reflect
Lesson 3
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Review

1. Why might students prefer a multiple choice question?

The answer appears in the test.

Guessing is fun.

They can use language.

They are easy to score.

2. What is an advantage of using multiple choice?

They are easy for teachers to write.

It is the best way to test grammar directly.

Beginning learners don't have to produce language.

It gives students choices.

3. Which is NOT a difference between fill-in-the-blank questions and multiple choice?

Fill-in-the blank answers are harder to score.

Multiple choice questions are harder to write.

Fill-in-the blank answers are easier to control.

Fill-in-the blank questions elicit production.

4. Indirect assessment is often used in assessing communicative competence.

True

False

Clear Answers

Reflect

Often in computer-based assessment, indirect questions are used. Find an online test or quiz that uses multiple-choice or fill-in-the blank questions. Work through the assessment and critique how it elicits language and/or other abilities.

Why do you think computer-based testing relies on these types of questions?

What impact might this have on the classroom as well as for self-directed learning using the computer?

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