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Using Hotpotatoes ™ to create Various Classroom-based Language Tests/ Exercises

Using Hotpotatoes ™ to create Various Classroom-based Language Tests/ Exercises. By: Dedy Kurniawan Email: deku@lc.unja.ac.id. Language Assessment: Some concepts. Assessment is inseparable from teaching (e.g. Brown & Abeywickrama , 2010; Djiwandono , 2008). Assessment vs. Testing.

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Using Hotpotatoes ™ to create Various Classroom-based Language Tests/ Exercises

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  1. Using Hotpotatoes ™ to createVariousClassroom-basedLanguage Tests/Exercises By: Dedy Kurniawan Email: deku@lc.unja.ac.id

  2. Language Assessment: Some concepts • Assessment is inseparable from teaching (e.g. Brown & Abeywickrama, 2010; Djiwandono, 2008)

  3. Assessment vs. Testing Assessment Testing a subset of assessment, a genre of assessment technique, which is “prepared administrative procedures that occur at identifiable times in a curriculum when learners uster all their faculties to offer peak performance, knowing that their responses are being measured and evaluated.” (Briwn & Aeywickrama, 2010, p. 3) It is: A method  instrument, technique, procedures or items Measurement  score Measure of an individual ability A measure of performance, implies competence Measure a domain “appraising or estimating the level or magnitude of some attribute of a person” (Mousavi, as cited in Brown & Abeywickrama, 2010, p. 3) It is: • Ongoing process • Wide range of methodological techniques • Never ending

  4. Assessment & Learning Evaluation

  5. Some dichotomies

  6. What this workshop is all about? By the end of this workshop, the participants are expected to be able to make use of Hotpotatoes™ in order to create various fun and interactive language tests, exercises, or quizzes that they can use in their real classrooms.

  7. Kinds of Test/Exercises • In this workshop, the participants will learn to use Hotpotatoes™ to create the following types of language tests/quizzes/exercises: • Multiple choice & Multiple Select • Short answer • Matching • Mix/Scramble • Cloze • Crossword puzzle

  8. Hotpotatoes™ Freely downloadable from http://hotpot.uvic.ca. Select the most suitable version for your computer/laptop system Before we continue with the demonstration, make sure you have already installed the software

  9. What is Hotpotatoes™? • A suite of six authoring tools enabling us to create various interactive web-based exercises/quizzes/tests • Hotpotatoes™ is created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre • Hotpotatoes™ is a freeware

  10. Why Hotpotatoes ™

  11. What can Hotpotatoes™ do?

  12. How to use Hotpotatoes™

  13. Now, Let’s do it !!! Get your laptop ready

  14. Bibliography Brown, H.D, & Abeywickrama, P. (2010). Language assessment: Principles and classroom practices. (2nd ed.) White Plains, NY: Pearson Education, Ltd. Djiwandono, S. (2008). Tesbahasa: Peganganbagipengajarbahasa. Jakarta: PT. Indeks

  15. Thank You

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