Assessment & Evaluation? Sorry, but I'm too busy teaching
This document discusses assessment in language learning and the Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA) approach. It notes that assessment should be systematic, collecting information from various sources to inform teaching and help students learn. Assessment can serve diagnostic, formative, and summative purposes. PBLA aims to fulfill these purposes while reflecting CLB principles and promoting learning through building on teacher expertise. The document questions whether assessment improves student learning and what effective assessment practices look like. It identifies characteristics that make assessment valid and reliable, and principles of assessment for learning, including it being part of planning, focusing on how students learn, and being motivating and providing guidance for improvement.
Assessment & Evaluation? Sorry, but I'm too busy teaching
- 1. Joanne Pettis 2012 ALT Branch Conference Sorry, but I’m too busy teaching...
- 2. CLB renewal Government priorities Focusing factors at work...
- 4. Government Priority CLB Milestone Test Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA)
- 5. Discussion 1 Assessment is ______
- 6. Assessment is... a systematic approach to collecting information on student learning and performance based on various sources of evidence to inform teaching and help students learn more.
- 7. Purposes of Assessment Diagnostic (Placement/Needs) Formative Summative
- 8. My Quest... An approach to assessment that would... fulfill diagnostic, formative and summative assessment purposes reflect CLB principles promote learning build on and enhance teacher expertise
- 9. Advantages of TBA scope reduces cheating validity reliability fairness feedback positive washback empowers Ts & Ss expertise cost-effective
- 10. TBA is valid & reliable when... clear standards assessment tasks/criteria clear goals adequate resources opportunity for moderation positive ‘assessment culture’
- 11. Questions... Does assessment improve student learning? If it does, are there assessment practices that are effective?
- 13. part of effective planning focus on how Ss learn central to classroom practice key professional skill sensitive & constructive
- 14. motivating learning goals & criteria guidance on how to improve facilitate self-assessment recognizes all learning achievement
- 15. Select one or two of the assessment for learning principles that stand out for you (see handout) and talk about why they stand out and what they mean for your teaching. Discussion 2