June 23rd - the quality of evaluation programmes

Yesterday we dealt with the quality of evaluation programmes, according to Alicia Camilloni. In your set of notes you have another chapter related to the same topic: Collecting Information (from Genesee and Upshur (1996) Classromm-Based Evaluation in Second Language Education). Reading this chapter will help with the jargon in English (which you were worried about!).
There's no absolute agreement between Camilloni and these authors, especially on the fact that realibility is not an essential condition for validity. Remember Camilloni states that when tests have high content validity, the tasks proposed are meaningful to students and they promote the construction of knowledge, the level of reliability decreases. Genesee and Upshur, on the contrary, postulate a one-to-one relationship between validity and reliability (see p. 63).
You can read this chapter and comment on your impressions here.