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Performance-based assessment: Skills
Performance-based assessment of the skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking 50 should be aligned with
the standards focused upon during each level.
1. Performance-based assessment: Reading
The features of reading tests are:
a. Building the reading assessment within a framework that views reading as being a dynamic, interactive,
and constructive process; thus, isolated skills are not measured.
b. Using authentic texts (e.g. newspaper article, a brochure, etc).
c. Assessing learners' competence in reading a variety of text types/genres for a variety of purposes;
d. Asking learners to respond to open-ended questions that allow for a variety of interpretations.
Process
Here's the process testers can follow:
• Select a text which is representative of a particular genre (for example, an argumentative text)
• Provide prompts/questions
• Work with scoring rubrics
Select a Text
The performance-based assessment for reading comprehension requires a reading and writing task for the entire
class. The first step is to select an unfamiliar text to learners — a text with a significant theme appropriate for
Level Four, a clearly identifiable genre, and of high interest for testees.
Provide prompts/questions
Once the text has been selected, design a prompt — or writing task 51 — to which testees can respond in writing.
Here are some sample writing prompts:
50 Communication modes : interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes.
51 . Testees may be assigned other types of tasks such as the following as they read, interpret, and analyze information:
• record and organize facts;
• make simple notes, often using predetermined formats such as webs and charts;
• create visual representations (e.g., posters, illustrations);
• participate in class and small-group discussions, write or present simple reports based on information from one or
two texts/ sources.
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