ASSESSMENT TYPES AND TASKS
Assessing students is kind of difficult because
teachers need to judge or grade learners performance in a qualitative or
quantitative way. Moreover, for evaluating students there are two types of
assessing formal
and informal.
Formal assessing is when students are evaluated through exams or when teachers
give them a quantitative grade. In addition, there are plenty exams to take
into consideration for assessing such as Diagnostic test (taken at the beginning of a
course to identify what learners know or do not know about the language), Placement test (taken to
students to identify the level learners should go in), Progress test (taken at the end of a unit
to check how well pupils have learned the content.). Achievement test (taken at the end of a
course to check if they have learned the contents of the whole course).All
these types of assessing include different questions which can be objective and subjective. What´s more,
there are other formal assessments that are not exams like Portfolios which is a
collection of all the written work, projects, recordings, videos, etc. developed
during the whole course. This type of assessing is done with the idea of
reflecting what students did right; wrong and how will they improve their work
next time.
In the language teaching classroom assessing is not as
easy as other may think that is why some teachers who have a big number of
students just use formal assessment; testing learners with objective
questions; it is easy to grade, but
sometimes it does not show critical thinking on students answers. Meanwhile, it
is not the only way to evaluate leaners subjectively. Nowadays teachers are
using portfolios to assess students because it is suitable to show evidences of
learners’ summative work in which they can reflect on the content of their
portfolio. To sum up, teachers may use tests with objective questions in order
to grade fast and portfolios to have a critical analysis of their own
work.
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For more information check on the following sources:
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- Rand.org,. (2014). Retrieved 6 December 2014, from http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monog
- Uts.edu.au,. (2014). Types of assessment | University of Technology, Sydney. Retrieved 6 December 2014, from http://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/teaching-and-learning/assessment/types-assessment
- Brown, J., & Hudson, T. (1998). The Alternatives in Language Assessment. TESOL Quarterly, 32(4), 653. doi:10.2307/3587999
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- Faculty.mu.edu.sa,. (2014). Retrieved 6 December 2014, from http://faculty.mu.edu.sa/public/uploads/1384813388.793471132662-Language-Testing-amp-Assessment.pdf
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