550 – Testing and Assessment for EMI Teachers

Description

20-hour Online Teacher Development Course

Course Description:

This course is intended to enable participants to understand the principles and concepts of the different types of educational testing and assessment. The participants will understand the processes of evaluation, measurement and testing in a better a manner. Thus, they will be able to plan and conduct evaluation and testing on the basis of analytical principles and practices.

Throughout the course, the participants will develop their knowledge and skills in constructing, analysing and improving assessments that adequately appraise general or specific instructional objectives. They will also be able to construct, critique and interpret different types of tests and integrate assessment results to student performance evaluation.

• All our online courses consist of on-demand input videos and downloadable resources, interactive exercises, tasks for the classroom and face-to-face interviews and feedback sessions.

Aims:

The course intends to give insights into direct and indirect effects of testing and assessment:

• identifying gaps in knowledge
• causing students to learn more
• producing better organization of knowledge
• improving transfer of knowledge to new contexts
• facilitating retrieval of material that was not tested
• improving metacognitive monitoring
• preventing interference from prior material when learning new material
• providing feedback to instructors