LLCU 424 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Content Validity, Motivation

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Foreign Languages and Literatures
• Course: LLCU 424
• Professor: Dr. Tomas McCone

Document Summary

Interview - context in which a teacher engages in a face-to-face question-answer dialogue with a student for a designated assessment purpose. Ascertains student"s needs before designing a course or curriculum. Seeks to discover student"s learning styles and preferences. Asks a student to assess her or her own performance. To maintain reliability, interview questions should be constructed carefully to elicit as focused a response as possible. Use relatively simple questions in the warm-up stage. Continue with the level check and probe questions, but adapt to the interviewee as needed. Focus on only one factor for each question. Be prepared to repeat or reframe questions that are not understood. Wind down with friendly and reassuring closing comments. Practicality remains relatively low for conferences and interviews because they are time-consuming. For interviews, a relatively high level of reliability should be maintained with careful attention to objectives and procedures.