Graduate Student Assessment Fellows Program
Center for Teaching & Learning,
UC Berkeley
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The Graduate Student Assessment Fellows Program supplements graduate preparation by offering opportunities for students to gain training in assessment of undergraduate student learning and evaluation of educational programs on the Berkeley campus. The Fellowship program fosters the following knowledge and skills through bi-monthly workshops and hands on assessment projects in academic departments:
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In-depth understanding of assessment practices in higher education
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Knowledge and strategies to articulate learning outcomes
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Application of use- and user-driven principles to design and implement program-level assessment
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Ability to analyze and interpret qualitative and/or quantitative data
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Ability to report assessment data in digestible ways
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Second Langauge Teaching
SLS 303,
Second Language Studies,
Univ of Hawaii Manoa
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This course surveys current theories, research, and practices in second and foreign language teaching. Through discussions, activities, and projects (e.g., classroom observation, syllabus designing, lesson planning), students will develop their ability to make informed decisions and choices in current and future instructional settings. Topics covered include institutional and curricular contexts of language teaching, the historical development of language teaching methodologies, learner and teacher roles, classroom management, syllabus and curriculum design, lesson planning, teaching materials, and the role of evaluation in language teaching and learning. Students are expected to critically draw on language learning theories and research and reflect on their own assumptions about language teaching practices.
Introduction to Program Evaluation
EDUC 276A,
Graduate School of Ed,
UC Berkeley
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This course provides an introduction to the field of program evaluation ("programs" might be curriculum innovations, academic or co-curricular programs, school reorganizations, teacher training reforms, instructional methods innovations, funding programs, or programs in health or welfare). It will give an overview of issues of concern to practicing evaluators, researchers, program managers, and academics interested in field-based research. Students will be introduced to the history of the field, the basic concepts and intellectual disputes, the major methodological issues, and to some common "models" of how an evaluation ought to be conducted. Based on the understandings of the topics and issues discussed in this course, students will be asked to conceptualize and design (and in some cases implement) an evaluation in their area of personal and/or professional interests. The purpose of this exercise is for students to develop skills for framing evaluation questions, designing, facilitating, and describing an evaluation plan.
Second Language Testing
SLS 490,
Second Language Studies,
Univ of Hawaii Manoa
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This is an introductory testing course for those with little or no formal training in language testing. The course will deal with both theoretical and practical aspects of testing second language proficiency. Course goals are to provide (1) knowledge of the basic use, content, and ethical issues in language testing, (2) basic knowledge of the psychometric issues, (3) experience in constructing and evaluating language tests. No previous knowledge of statistics or advanced mathematical knowledge is required.
Brown, J. D. (2005). Testing in language programs: A comprehensive guide to English language assessment. New York: McGraw Hill.
Online Summer Institute for Non-native Teachers of Japanese
National Foreign Language Resource Center,
Univ of Hawaii Manoa
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This summer institute serves as an online professional development opportunity for non-native-speaking teachers of Japanese language at the K-16 level, with a focus on teachers in underserved areas. As part of our mission to serve the development and enhancement of Asian language in the United States, the University of Hawai‘i National Foreign Language Resource Center supports this two-week intensive language courses in Japanese. The intensive course, delivered entirely free of charge over the World Wide Web using a tested and proven pedagogic model, focus on the development and/or maintenance of communicative language skills at the Advanced level, with strong emphasis on written communication meeting high standards of literacy.
ESL Courses
various educational levels, content, and locations
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ESL: Hawaii English Language Program
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Conversation 100 level
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Conversation 200 level: Inter-cultural learning
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TOEFL grammar 300/400 level
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TOEFL reading 300/400 level
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TOEFL listening 300/400 level
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TOEFL writing 300/400 level
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Intensive TOEFL for all levels
EFL: Senshu University High School
EFL: NHK English School for Children