It is clear that evaluation needs planning. It could be time consuming, but it’s necessary if we want evaluation to be successful. When planning evaluation, there are some questions that should be asked. Here they are:
If you take into account all the five questions when
planning evaluation, it will give you the advantage to foresee problems and the
opportunity to involve the students in the process of evaluation. For instance,
in the first question, it is usually the teacher who keeps the results of
assessments, but there are other people who can also be involved in this. Students
can be participant of the process of evaluation; thus, including
self-assessment will increase the students’ involvement and self-awareness of
their own learning.
For further information, it is recommended to check Classroom-based Evaluation in Second
Language Education, by Genesee and Upshur (1999, pp. 44-51)
I like that picture. Sometimes teachers forget the real purpose of assessment and it is applied just as a requirement without asking those questions that I think are very important in order to achieve the real purpose of assessment.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Julexy, teachers tend to use tests just because thay are part of the requiriments of the course. I am affraid that most of the teachers do not take into account the five questions, perhaps two or three, but not the whole schema for planning evaluation. This is a real problem and this is, in my opinion, a consequence of the limited conditions for teachers, what I mean is that poor traiining for teachers end up with this kind of failure in the educational system.
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