UNIT 18: ASSESSMENT TYPES AND TASKS

ASSESSMENT TYPES AND TASKS

This chapter, teach me the use of an authentic assessment to assess students performance. Assessment could be formal or informal. Informal assessment is when the educators observe learners to see how well they are doing something, while the Formal assessment is when the educators assess learners through test and given their work a grade. There are several reasons that teachers assess students’ formally in the classroom. Teachers assess pupil at the beginning of the course in order to know what they know or don’t know. So, they use a Diagnostic test. Another reason is for knowing what level the learners are at, they test that they use is a Placement test, Progressive test is to see how well the learners learnt.. Assessment could be formative and summative. Formative assessment provide feedback to the students, it does not give grades, while the summative assessment gives learners a score. Therefore, there are many tasks teachers can use to assess pupil. Ex.  Multiple- choice questions, interviews, gap filling, table completion for listening task ect. Then, there are many others activities for each skill. As teachers, we need to know how to assess students and when to assess. It is not going to be easy for us because we have to learn different activity task for each skills. Also, we have to know the learners level they need. In addition, I can say that assess student is not an easy task.

This video show us how important is the authentic assessment

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Importance of Assessment

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