Week 15’s class (4/20)

I enjoyed tonight’s class very much. First of all, we were all taking an AccuPlacer test, which is used to help students to identify their academically English performance in terms of language skills. I took TESL 1 test, which inculdes writing, listening, and reading test tasks. It took me about 30 minutes to get it done. After finishing the test, for some reason, I didn’t get my writing score back so I had no clue of where is my writing ability in this test. But it was such a great opportunity for these ESL prospective teachers to experience how a formal ESL assessment is developed and to see how they feel about this test. This would help them to consider some practical principle or steps while they are developing a test? Later on, we moved to the step of designing a test. It was a lot of fun and benefical to learn from our assessment’s sharing.