Unit 18

Assessment types and tasks

 In this unit I have learnt important things about assessment before to start with it I am going to give a definition for this relevant word in teaching then Assessment means judging learners’ performance by collecting information about it. Within this part we can assess our students in informal or formal way. Let’s talk about informal assessment is when we observe learners to see how well they are doing something while for formal assessment is when we assess learners through tests or exams and them give them a grade or mark.

On the other hand, there are several reasons why we want to assess learners formality then for that we use some types of assessment for instance we have a diagnostic test we use it at the beginning of a course it helps teachers to see what students know or do not know in order to decide what to teach and what learners need to improve whereas, a placement test we apply it to decide what level of class the learners should go into.

Another way of assessing learner’s work through the use of a portfolio this is very common for teachers to use it since it is the collection of learners’ work done during the course one of its advantage is let learners to revise and improve their work.

Regarding to achievement test or summative test, they are used at the end of a course to see how well learners have learnt the contents of the whole course. Finally we have proficiency test it is used to see how good learners are at language in other words it measures the learners’ general skill.

In conclusion assessment takes a significant part in classroom all the time either in a formal or informal way in order to see the learners’ progress.

Here you have some links which contain useful information:

http://www.finchpark.com/courses/tkt/Unit_17/assessment.pdf

http://app.griffith.edu.au/assessment-matters/docs/assessment-methods/tasks