Erwartungshorizont

English translation: model outcome

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German term or phrase:	Erwartungshorizont
English translation:	model outcome
Entered by:	British Diana

18:19 Jan 22, 2013

German to English translations [PRO]
Education / Pedagogy / Assessment criteria for a language exam

German term or phrase: Erwartungshorizont

Please refer back to my earlier question if you need more context. This time my text is using those typically German essay-writing terms "Gliederung" and "Erwartungshorizont" . When my children started writing discursive essays they learned to do a Gliederung first and the teacher produced an Erwartungshorizont afterwards, both of which I don't recall having been part of the British scheme of things in the 1960s....
These words now crop up in my text on how to award marks for the summary of the talk: "Zu jedem Gliederungspunkt (= main point of the talk) werden im Erwartungshorizont Unterpunkte (=subsiduary aspects) vorgegeben. Insgesamt werden 10 Unterpunkte erwartet. Für jeden Unterpunkt können 2 Punkte vergeben werden."
I am a bit stuck as to what to say for "Erwartungshorizont". Some online dictionaries sugest "expectation horizon" or "level of expectations" but they sound a bit weird to me. Any better suggestions?

British Diana KudoZ activity Questions: 100 (1 open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 740 Germany
Local time: 06:47

assessment criteria

Explanation:
Just trying to get away from the German phraseology.

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Maybe learning outcomes or aims would be a possibility, if you reject assessment criteria.
In the University of London glossary, assessment criteria are defined as follows:
Assessment criteria are based on the intended learning outcomes for the work being assessed...

Learning outcomes:

Statement of what a learner/student is expected to know, understand and /or be able to demonstrate after completion of a process of learning.

http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/sites/default/files/reg...

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Subject benchmarks would seem to be another alternative.

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Last try: learning objectives

e.g. http://www.routledge.com/cw/parboteeah-9780415893695/s1/obje...

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Thanks, Diana. I don't know whether you had a chance to read Orla's comments before making your decision. Marking expectations seems to me to be quite appropriate.

Selected response from:

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 06:47

Grading comment

Thank you, Wendy. I'm not using assessment criteria as this is the heading of the whole chapter, but the idea of "outcome" was just what I was looking for! I'm suggesting "model outcome" to my client and will see what happens.
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +4

(evaluation) criteria / (grading) criteria

NGK

1 +4

assessment criteria

Wendy Streitparth

expectation list

philgoddard

3 +1

(performance or evaluation) standards

Michael Martin, MA

Summary of reference entries provided

performance expectations/(grading/scoring) rubric

oa_xxx (X)

Discussion entries: 4

British Diana

Germany

ASKER

@Wendy

07:44 Jan 27, 2013

I am always wary about using the word "marking" in any document Germans or non-BE speakers might be reading. Germans first think of "markieren" and AE speakers expect "grading". In BE to mark is to correct or/and to allocate a score. I think my "Erwartungshorizont" first tells the raters what subsidiary points they must look for in the candidate's scripts. The next stage is to allocate scoring points for those which have been covered by the candidate, and that is the actual marking (scoring). Thank you for your patience!

British Diana

Germany

ASKER

@Wendy

12:36 Jan 23, 2013

The overall heading is "Bewertungskriterien" then we have "Hörverstehen und Schreiben" (i.e. the subtest in question) which has two subsections "Inhaltliche Angemessenheit" and "Sprachliche Angemessenheit".
I am working on "Inhaltliche Angemessenheit" which has two sections, "Zielniveau" and "Bewertung und Punktvergabe". The sentence I quote here is to be found under "Bewertung und Punktvergabe" and is explaining how the points are awarded for content. I don't really want to use "criteria" in this sentence as it is the blanket term for 10 pages of text.

Wendy Streitparth

Germany

08:29 Jan 23, 2013

What is the German for the text heading? I.e. could maybe something else be appropriate?

British Diana

Germany

ASKER

Dear colleagues

08:18 Jan 23, 2013

Thanks for all these suggestions and remarks to date. "Assessment criteria" (see my title above) is the heading for the whole section of the text and refers to the way in which the candidate's performance is, yes, assessed. The part I am working on now deals with the subtest Listening and Writing in which the candidates listen to a talk and then write a summary. The examiners for this (here called raters) award points on content and language. In order for the raters to award the points for content fairly, they are provided with this "Erwartungshorizont" which I reckon is a bit like a "perfect answer" or indeed a perfect "Gliederung".
Thus I am sorry to say that the suggestions referring to "criteria" do not quite fit what I want.

Answers

13 mins confidence:

expectation list

Explanation:
There are lots of things you could call it, but here's a suggestion. I agree that "horizon" is not appropriate here. It's a checklist of what they're expected to write, and they get marks for each item on the list.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 51

15 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

(evaluation) criteria / (grading) criteria

Explanation:
That seems to be what it comes down to. Or you could simply go with "expectations."

NGK
United States
Local time: 23:47
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 90

43 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

(performance or evaluation) standards

Explanation:
I think that's how many educators in this country would look at this..

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Perhaps, "scope of expectation(s) might also work in this context.

At a minimum, I know that US educators like to talk about "scope and sequence" in the context of curriculum development..

Reference: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15324818ame0101_...

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 00:47
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in category: 178

22 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

assessment criteria

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 06:47
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 29

Grading comment

Reference comments

21 hrs peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: performance expectations/(grading/scoring) rubric

Reference information:
perhaps!

e.g.
Grading and Performance Rubrics
What are Rubrics?

A rubric is a scoring tool that explicitly represents the performance expectations for an assignment or piece of work. A rubric divides the assigned work into component parts and provides clear descriptions of the characteristics of the work associated with each component, at varying levels of mastery... Rubrics can be used as scoring or grading guides, to provide formative feedback to support and guide ongoing learning efforts, or both.
http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/teach/rubrics.html

Limitations
• The problem of criteria: One challenge (or potential limitation) in developing and using rubrics is that of describing performance expectations, and defining the criteria that differentiate several levels of performance.
http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=...

Rubric
In education terminology, scoring rubric means "a standard of performance for a defined population" ... . In this new sense, a scoring rubric is a set of criteria and standards typically linked to learning objectives. It is used to assess or communicate about product, performance, or process tasks.

A scoring rubric is an attempt to communicate expectations of quality around a task. In many cases, scoring rubrics are used to delineate consistent criteria for grading. Because the criteria are public, a scoring rubric allows teachers and students alike to evaluate criteria, which can be complex and subjective.
WIKIPEDIA

I am not personally familiar with the term "rubrics" in this context, seems to be more common in US, some UK examples but am not convinced it would work for UK audience, e.g BBC says "Rubrics are the instructions that are used in your tests - they might ask you to put a list of words in order, or answer a question, or tick boxes. They are carefully designed to help the examiner measure what you know." - quite different really!

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http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/vac/evaluation/p_5.html

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PS - added "marking" to the search (rather than scoring/grading) (plus rubrics UK) and suddenly got more AU, NZ and UK hits that were comparable with the US ones.

Reference: http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=...

oa_xxx (X)
Germany
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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