The Online Diagnostic Assessment System: Webbased Formative Assessment

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The Online Diagnostic Assessment System
Web-based Formative Assessment
Providing linguists with a language management
tool by identifying a linguists strengths and
weaknesses.

Korean ODA Team (Sun-Kwang Bae, Ted Han and
Saekyun Lee) Curriculum Development
Division Defense Language Institute Foreign
Language Center
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ODA Structure (Testlet)

• Testlet
• Passage
• First Set of Items
• Main Proposition
• Supporting Proposition 1
• Supporting Proposition 2
• Second Set of Items
• Lexicon
• Structure
• Discourse

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ODA Structure (Item Types)

• Item Types Machine Scored
• Constructed-Response
• Short Answer
• Contextual Meaning
• Defined-Response
• Multiple Choice
• Identification
• Categorization

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ODA Procedure

• High
• Log-in Entry Level Diagnostic
• Low Profile

• Up/Down criteria Pass/Fail in a set of three
  testlets
• Two test sets in ceiling level
• One test set in floor level

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Comparison Chart
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ODA Demonstration
http//oda.dliflc.edu/
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Diagnostic Profile

• Individualized based on diagnostic data collected
  during Assessment.
• Covers Can-do areas at the current proficiency
  level and Cannot-do areas at the next higher
  proficiency level.
• Addresses task-successes and their supporting
  linguistic competencies.

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Diagnostic Profile
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Diagnostic Profile
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Diagnostic Profile
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Group Discussion

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Questions Comments?

• Contacts
• Ted Han ted.han_at_us.army.mil
• Saekyun Lee petunia337_at_gmail.com