Aligning Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment to Promote Learning: Technological Advances

Prof Stephen Sireci, University of Massachusetts, USA
Aligning Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment to Promote Learning: Technological Advances
To promote successful language acquisition, language proficiency assessments are often targeted to curriculum standards. These assessments can best support language acquisition when they operate within a system in which the curriculum, instruction, and assessments work together for the common goal of serving learners. In this presentation,
the theory of action for the English Test for Adults will be presented, which is focused on aligning all components of the educational system to support English learners’ language acquisition. Methods for evaluating alignment — both traditional and those based on artificial intelligence — will be reviewed. In addition, the use of technology in assessment design to deliver personalized assessments to language learners will be discussed. Innovative assessment design includes aligning all components of the system, as well as Design-in Real-Time (DIRTy) assessment delivery. The goal of personalization and alignment is to develop and deliver assessments that provide valid and actionable information for promoting student learning.

Biodata
Stephen G. Sireci, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Educational Assessment in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is known for his research in evaluating test fairness, particularly issues related to content validity, test bias, cross-lingual assessment, standard setting, and technology-based assessment. He has authored/co-authored over 160
publications, and is the co-architect of the multistage-adaptive Massachusetts Adult Proficiency Tests. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, and of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association; Past-President of the National Council on Measurement in Education; and President of the International Test Commission.