Can That Be Done? - On Developing High-Stakes Summative Tests for Additional Formative Purposes

• Based on an expanded view of validity, this presentation focuses on the collaborative development of high-stakes national tests of foreign languages in an assessment system that has both summative and formative aims. Students’ and teachers’ views are systematically collected in large-scale pre-testing rounds and analysed with a multifaceted research methodology. Results are used in creating information materials for formative use, composing tests and profiled reporting forms, and in setting standards. Examples are given of investigations of students’ views in relation to individual characteristics and performances, as well as of teachers’ opinions about the tests and reported use of results. Furthermore, studies of inter-rater consistency and of dimensionality are presented as components in the successive validation process.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Swedish educational system

national tests

foreign languages

validity

collaborative test development

summative

formative

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