oONLINE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT

In last lectyure, Datin give us the lecture about online language proficiency asessment.From the article: ONLINE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASESSMENT by Norizan Abdul Razak, Hazita Azman, Sallehuddin Abdul Aziz, Wong Fook Fei, Afendi Hamat, from UKM. The English language competency test should profile the lecturer 's general english ,language proficiency and english instructional language control in the target language . The test development is guided by the communitive competence theoretical construct within the target "target language use domain" framework( Bachman and Palmer, 1997).

UKM has embraced information and communication technology(ICT) as one of its top manegement agenda UKM produced its ICT blueprint to equip its staff for k-economy and globalization(Aziz Deraman and Syahrul Fahmi,2003). The concept of k-campus as proposed by Aziz Deraman and Syahrul Fahmi(2003) is to establish a knowledge - centric e-campus whereby a web-based system is used to facilitate education knowledge and resouses servises for the campus community and skateholders . Learning care is a wed-based fully intergrated e-learning solution,which provides UKM community a tool to develop, implement and share effectively the use of web- based technology for intra and inter organization learning process.

UKM community is able to subscribe , create and manage the portfolios(courses)available from anywhere in the world learning care asessment module allows the portfolio owners to create and manage questions. The qustions can be programmed in several forums , included fill in the blank, true and false, multiple choice, multipleanswer, matching, ordering and short essays. Learning care does provide a relatively simple interface for test development, scoring and statistic keeping, which made it a good platform for the development of the pilot phase of the online test. The online test provides test results summary and details on the number of user attempts, total test takers attempt,user average score, user highest score ever and overall highscore. The test also needs to be administered in a controlled environment within a specified time frame.