Can you differentiate between formal and informal assessment?
How about summative and formative? Which one is often used to provide feedback to both learners and teachers allowing them to make relevant changes to their learning or teaching?
Which one focuses on how well students have learned the contents of the course, often receiving a grade at the end?
In class we talked about assessment types and the reasons for them. Can you complete the information below?
Test type Why?
1. Diagnostic
2. To find out which class is best suited to our students.
3. Progress test
4. Less stressful than an exam.
Maybe gives a more accurate picture.
5. Portfolios
6. To see how well students know the contents of the course
7. Proficiency test
Assessment task types can be broadly divided into what two categories? One is based on the idea that there is only one right answer while the other type is more open, requiring the marker to make a judgement of how right an answer is.
What else do we need to think about when assessing our learners?
- Certain task types are best suited to certain skills and systems. For example: Matching, creating lexical sets and word building with affixes, may be best suitable for assessing vocabulary. Gap-fill tasks, error correction and sentence completion, could be suited to grammar. Can you think of task types that could be used to assess a students performance in the four skills? What subskills do they focus on?
- Do the tasks reflect what we have been teaching in class?
- Are we providing useful feedback to our students or simply highlighting their errors?
- We shouldn't choose certain task types simply because they are easy to mark. Are our subjective tasks being scored fairly? i.e. have we tried to make them less subjective by choosing appropriate criteria? (see below).
- Are we using a mix of formal and informal assessment?
- Are self-assessment and peer-assessment suitable for our learners?
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