UNIT 22 CHOOSING ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

Assessment means collecting information about learner’s performance, progress or attitudes in order to make judgments about students learners. At the moment of assessing students, we can choose from informal or formal assessment.

Informal Assessment: this type of assessment can be taken just by monitoring a lesson

Formal Assessment: this kind of assessment might be taken through tests and examinations and grade will be given to the students.

These are some types of assessment

1.      Cloze test

2.      Gap-fill

3.      Jumbled sentences

4.      Sentence transformation

5.      Proofreading

6.      Multiple-choice questions

7.      True/False/Don’t know (T/F/DK) questions

8.      Information transfer

9.      Matching

10.  Sequencing

11.  Dictation

12.  Summary writing

13.  Guided discovery

14.  Interview

15.  Information-gap

  In Conclusion at the time of assessing students, we have to mix both informal and formal assessment because not everything needs a grade. We also have to understand that not every student is going to respond as the way we would like.

Here there are some cites in which you’ll be able to find more information about assessing students.

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/formal-versus-informal-assessments

http://www.uri.edu/hss/education/to/assess_stu_learning.pdf
Source: Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The Teachink Knowledge Tests Course . United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.