英语教学论Chapter7 Assessmentin Language Teaching

Testing
Assessment Evaluation
Purposes
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For whom?
What are testing, assessment and evaluation for?
Understanding assessment
Task 1 The following is a list of understanding given by different teachers a bout assessment. Tick the ones that are closest to your understanding. Then compare and discuss them with your partner.
• Testing is for school’s or parents’ benefits, for them to know exactly where each student stands among all the students tested and how well they do in such tests.
• Does the diagram you created help you, to some degree, understand the relations among the three terms?
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• I think it has something to do with evaluation.
• Assessment is for teachers and for learners, for them to not only know how well they have done but also where they have done well and where they need more efforts. For educational purposes and for the purposes of improving teaching and learning, assessment is far more important than testing.
(Adapted from Conner, 1991:2)
Differences among testing, assessment and evaluation
• Testing: Testing often takes the ‘pencil and paper’ form and it is usually done at the end of a learning period. The result is often expressed by a mark, a grade or a ratio. Students’ test scores are compared with each other and sometimes ranked for selection purposes.
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Task 3
• What do you think are the purposes of assessment?
• The chart below has twelve possible purposes of assessment. Do you agree with them? If yes, choose six items that think are the most important purposes of assessment.
• Then add one or two assessment purposes that you StchhinokolaopfpFloyretoigEnLLTancglausasgreoso,mS.ichuan Normal University
Agree/Disagree 1. To discover learners’ weakness 2. To discover learners’ achievements 3. To evaluate existing curriculum 4. To check upon teachers’ performance 5. To motivate learners 6. To provide learning incentive 7. To provide basis for further planning of teaching: what to teach next 8. To qualify students for certain status 9. To provide basis for correction 10. To provide criteria to qualify for higher level studies 11. To provide learners with a sense of accomplishment
Chapter 7 Assessment in Language Teaching
Dr Hongying Zheng
School of Foreign Languages, Sichuan Normal University
Aims of the unit
• What is assessment? How is it different from evaluation and testing?
• Assessment: Assessment involves the collecting of information or evidence of a learners’ learning progress and achievement over a period of time for the purposes of improving teaching and learning. It is not based on one test or one task, nor is it expressed by a mark or grade, but rather in a report form with scales or levels as well as description and comment from the teacher. Test scores may also be one source of the information. The students’ achievement is often measured against his/her own starting point rather than compared against the skills or abilities of other students.
• Finding out strengths and weபைடு நூலகம்knesses of our students and ourselves.
• I use tests in my classroom. I also use quizzes—as a way of keeping a check on the students’ learning. I also mark their work, sometimes with a grade but usually a comment.
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• It is an on-going process which focuses on the whole life of our school. Finding out if we are being effective.
• I feel as though it’s a big stick hanging over our heads, teacher evaluation and all that.
• Evaluation: Evaluation, according to Cameron (2019:222), can be concerned with ‘a whole range of issues in and beyond language education: lessons, courses, programs, and skills can all be evaluated.’ It involves making an overall judgment about one’ work or a whole school’s work. It produces a global view of achievement usually based
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• It’s to do with testing.
• Finding out how good you are at something.
• I use it to keep a check on my learners, by spelling tests, small quizzes and things like that.
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Task 4
• According to what you have understood from the above discussions, complete the following table and then discuss it with a partner.
Purposes of assessment
• Assessment in ELT means to discover what the learners know and can do at certain stage of the learning process.
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teachers, etc.
Task 2
• Read the above definitions again and draw your own diagram to demonstrate your own understanding of the three terms and their relationships.