In this unit I learned how and why teachers assess their students and some types of
assessments. First, teachers assess
students by collecting information about them. Teachers use assessment task for assessing learners.
Also they can assess learners formally
(assess learners through test or exams) or informally
(observe learners to see how well they are doing something) because it helps teachers
to know how much students know about the topic or in this case about the target
language. Second, there are some types of assessments to assess learners
formally such as diagnostic test (what
students know and don’t know), placement
test (know the level of the student), progress
test (how learner know in a part of the course), portfolio (collection of learners´ works), achievement test (at the end of the course) and proficiency test (how
good learner is at language). There are some task that teacher uses to assess
students such as multiple-choice
questions, gap fill, true/false and matching task. Furthermore, assessment
task are described as objective (not judge) and subjective (need judgment). On the
other hand, learners can also do informal assessment by assess themselves or
another classmate. To sum up, whatever assess that you use it have to be in a
formal way because it can help teacher to avoid problems with the grades of
his/her students. I consider that the best way to assess students is with
formal assessment because it could help me as future teacher to know how much
my students know about the subject.
Bibliography:
- Mary Spratt, Alan Pulverness, Melanie Williams (2001) TKT Teaching Knowledge Test course Module 1,2 and 3
Very good Susana!
ResponderEliminarI like your analysis, but I consider that formal assessment is not the best way of assessing students but also informal, it depends on the students needs and level of language students have.!