文档介绍：English Language Teaching Methodology
Unit 15
Learner Differences and Learner Training
Outline
Presentation: Assessing language achievement
A brief revision of Unit 14
Unit 15 Assessment in Language Teaching
Presentation: Task 6 ()
Suppose you have been teaching a Senior 1 class for a year. Now you are given the chance to assess the students’ overall language achievement in whatever methods you like. How would you do it? Write out your steps and reasons for doing so.
A Revision of Unit 14 Assessment in Language Teaching
What is assessment? How is it different from evaluation and testing?
The purpose of assessment
The methods of assessment
The criteria for assessment
The principles for assessment
Tests in language assessment
Understanding assessment
Test: usu done at the end of a learning period; result by a mark; ss’ test scores pared with each other
Assessment: involves the collecting of information or evidence of a learner’s learning progress and achievement over a period of time for the purposes of improving teaching and learning. Forms of assessment: tests, comment from T, T’s observation notes, ss’ self-assessment sheets, samples of ss’ work, etc. ss’ achievement is measured against his own starting point.
Evaluation: ‘a whole range of issues in and beyond language education’; produces a global view of achievement based on many different types of information
Evaluation is the most general of the three concepts, for decision-making purpose. Assessment focus on the learning progress and process-oriented, for the purposes of improving teaching and learning. Test is one instrument of assessment, focusing on the result of learning.
Assessment purposes
Methods for assessment
Summative and formative assessment
Teacher’s observations
Continuous assessment
Self-assessment and peer assessment
Project work
portfolios
Criteria for assessment
Criterion-referenced assessment: based on a fixed standard or a set of criterion.
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