Testing and Checking

Testing and Checking

(by Danuta Krzyżyk, Barbara Morcinek)

PRACTICAL CLASSES:

  • certificate system, its requirements, division into levels, grammatical and lexical scope being applied at every level of proficiency
  • shape of the exam, types of exercises concerning grammar, listening comprehension, understanding of written texts, ways of their assessment
  • formulating testing tasks – technology of writing such tasks, types of tasks taking into consideration their structure, requirements given to the tasks, methods of norms establishment, indicator of difficulty in case of test task, typical mistakes when creating exercises
  • levels of understanding written and spoken texts (perception, semantic, critical and creative level), types of exercises suitable for every level
  • global, selective and detailed understanding, types of tasks
  • self-creating of certificate tasks for various levels

Basic literature:

Europejski system opisu kształcenia językowego, Warszawa 2001.
Magnusson D., Wprowadzenie do teorii testów, Warszawa 1981.
Niemierko B., Pomiar wyników kształcenia, Warszawa 1999.
Państwowe Egzaminy Certyfikatowe z Języka Polskiego jako Obcego. Standardy wymagań egzaminacyjnych, Ministerstwo Edukacji narodowej i Sportu 2003.
Polityka językowa a certyfikacja, red. J. Tambor, D. Rytel-Kuc, Katowice-Leipzig 2006.
Szaran T., Pomiar dydaktyczny, Warszawa 2000.