Online Guides and Databases:
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/assessment.html
ERIC/CLL Resource Guides Online
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/k12assessment/fmpro?-db=k12nflrc-srch.fp5&-lay=search&-format=search.html&-view
Directory of K-12 Foreign Language Assessment instruments
http://www.cal.org/nclrc/fltestdb/
Foreign Language Test Database
http://www.cal.org/k12nflrc/internetresources.htm
CAL website on Internet assessment resources
Online workshops/ tutorials:
http://www.cal.org/k12nflrc/
The Performance Assessment Initiative is a collaborative effort between
CAL and the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center.
http://www.nclrc.org/Catesot.htm
It is a web-based tutorial designed to guide educators in creating
and implementing a standards-based, foreign language portfolio assessment
tied to their own curricula.
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/languagestudies/ltest/ilta/faqs/main.html
International Language Testing Association, Language Testing Video
FAQ’s
- Brief explanation in video about language testing issues.
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/second_languages/oral_language/
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, (2001), Oral Language
Assessment in the Foreign Language Class (Planning, Conducting, and
Managing).
- 7 steps in creating authentic and performance-based assessment tasks
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:znGmsqyWcYwC:harrison.k12.co.us/clip/pdf/
flrubric.pdf+foreign+language+assessment&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
sample rubrics
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/second_languages/oral_language/
how to design oral assessments for fl classes
http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/foreign/1999/appxB.html
samples of fl performance-based assessments
Online articles:
http://www.ncssfl.org/rationale.htm
Position paper explaining benefits of FL in elementary school
http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num2/emerging/default.html
Language Testing Tools and Technologies
http://www.nclrc.org/caidlr36.htm#BM4
Creating Rubrics for Foreign Language Assessment
http://www.nclrc.org/caidlr1l.htm#BM2
What Goes Into a Portfolio?
http://www.nclrc.org/caidlr1l.htm#BM3
Foreign Language Performance Testing
http://www.nclrc.org/caidlr41.htm#BM2
Trends in Foreign Language Assessment: Simulated Oral Proficiency
Interviews (SOPIs)
http://www.nclrc.org/caidlr41.htm#BM3
Trends in Foreign Language Assessment: The Computerized
Oral Proficiency Instrument (COPI)
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/miscpubs/jeilms/vol14/hernand.htm
Reducing bias in the assessment of culturally and
linguistically diverse populations
Annotated bibliographies:
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/languagestudies/ltest/ilta/bibliography.pdf
The ILTA Language Testing Bibliography 1991-1999
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/minibibs/OralProf.htm
Oral Proficiency Testing (annotated bibliography
by Dorry Kenyon)