1. Using Hotpotatoes ™ to create Various Classroom-based Language Tests/Exercises
By: Dedy Kurniawan
Dedy Kurniawan

3. Language Assessment: Some concepts
Assessment is inseparable from teaching (e.g. Brown & Abeywickrama, 2010; Djiwandono, 2008)
Learning Objectives
Learning Activities
Evaluation

4. Assessment vs. Testing Assessment Testing
“appraising or estimating the level or magnitude of some attribute of a person” (Mousavi, as cited in Brown & Abeywickrama, 2010, p. 3)
It is:
Ongoing process
Wide range of methodological techniques
Never ending
a subset of assessment, a genre of assessment technique, which is “prepared administrative procedures that occur at identifiable times in a curriculum when learners uster all their faculties to offer peak performance, knowing that their responses are being measured and evaluated.” (Briwn & Aeywickrama, 2010, p. 3)
It is:
A method  instrument, technique, procedures or items
Measurement  score
Measure of an individual ability
A measure of performance, implies competence
Measure a domain

5. Assessment & Learning
Teaching
Assessment
Measurement
Tests
Evaluation

6. Some dichotomies Informal vs. Formal Assessment
Formative vs. Summative Assessment
Traditional vs. Alternative Assessment
Classroom-based test vs. Standardized tests

7. What this workshop is all about?
By the end of this workshop, the participants are expected to be able to make use of Hotpotatoes™ in order to create various fun and interactive language tests, exercises, or quizzes that they can use in their real classrooms.

8. Kinds of Test/Exercises
In this workshop, the participants will learn to use Hotpotatoes™ to create the following types of language tests/quizzes/exercises:
Multiple choice & Multiple Select
Short answer
Matching
Mix/Scramble
Cloze
Crossword puzzle

9. Hotpotatoes™
Freely downloadable from Select the most suitable version for your computer/laptop system
Before we continue with the demonstration, make sure you have already installed the software

10. What is Hotpotatoes™?
A suite of six authoring tools enabling us to create various interactive web-based exercises/quizzes/tests
Hotpotatoes™ is created by the Research and Development team at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
Hotpotatoes™ is a freeware

11. Why Hotpotatoes ™
Free
Legal
Easy to Use
Fun
Interactive

12. What can Hotpotatoes™ do?
JQuiz
Create MC, Short answer, Multiselect, or Hybrid quizzes
JMatch
Create Matching quizzes
Jcloze
Create Cloze quizzes
JMix
Create mix/scrambled items quizzes
Jcross
Create crossword puzzle
JMash
Mash up all the above quizzes into one

13. How to use Hotpotatoes™
Stage 1: Data Input
Select type of quiz
Input the material
Add illustration, etc.
Save the Hotpotatoes file
Stage 2: Create
Configure the output
Export the file into HTML, Zip, or Printed Form
Stage 3: Distribute
Online
HTML File
Zip File
Printed

14. Now, Let’s do it !!!
Get your laptop ready

15. Bibliography
Brown, H.D, & Abeywickrama, P. (2010). Language assessment: Principles and classroom practices. (2nd ed.) White Plains, NY: Pearson Education, Ltd. Djiwandono, S. (2008). Tes bahasa: Pegangan bagi pengajar bahasa. Jakarta: PT. Indeks

16. Thank You
Dedy Kurniawan