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EVALUATIONEVALUATION
Evaluation is an integral part of Evaluation is an integral part of teaching variables.teaching variables.
Various tests are conducted for Various tests are conducted for evaluationevaluation
TYPES OF TESTSTYPES OF TESTS
• Proficiency Tests
• Achievement Tests
• Aptitude Tests
• Diagnostic Tests
Qualities of a good testQualities of a good test
• Learner friendly• Down to earth and practical• Validity• Reliability• Natural• Meeting instructional values• Extent ion of class room activity• Scorability• Economy• Administrability• Fair, equitable and diverse
Why should we assess?Why should we assess?
• To measure student progress• To guide students and encourage improvement• To grade according to level or ability• To diagnose weakness and to remedy errors• To provide feedback on the effectiveness of the
teaching method• To provide motivation for students• To evaluate communication competence• To promote creativity• To develop cognitive and linguistic competencies
What to assess?What to assess?
• Product or process?• Knowledge of language or ability to use it?• Teaching or learning?• For allocation of grades and marks or for
feedback on the student’s performance?• Whether holistic, integrating material from a
variety of areas?• Whether serialist?• Non-referenced or criterion –referenced?
When to assess?When to assess?
• Throughout the year.
• Based on the objective to be measured.
• Before covering certain portions.
• Stick to deadline
• After covering the portion
How to maintain?How to maintain?
• Be meticulous.
• Keep assessment records on computer
• Keep several back up copies
Reduce the burden?Reduce the burden?
• Reduce the number of assignments
• Reduce the length of assessments
• Include variety of assessment procedures
• Encourage peer assessments
• Encourage self assessments
Feed backFeed back
• Targeted to enhance learning• Orally or written • Consider group feed back in case of general
mistakes• Consider students’ feeling• Add short comments• Personalize• Prepare model answers and hand out to
students
Evaluation should promote:Evaluation should promote:
• Digital Age literacy• Inventive Thinking• Effective Communication• Enculturation• Self-awareness• High productivity• Emotional harmony and unity• Overall improvement
A few assumptions about A few assumptions about evaluationevaluation
It should :• Look like teaching(an extension of classroom
process)• Be a generative process• Be in tune with pedagogical and curricular
visions• Multi-level and multi-faceted• Inspire students to explore and reconstruct
knowledge
Writing involves:Writing involves:
1. Higher Order Skills• Generating ideas• Sequencing• Drafting• Evaluating• Reviewing• Revising and editing• redrafting
2.Critical Thinking2.Critical Thinking
Ability for:• Deep analysis• Comparing and contrasting• Making suppositions• Divergent thinking• Evaluating,summarising and substantiating• Critique• Paraphrasing• Applying the knowledge
3. Basic Elements3. Basic Elements
• Grammar
• Vocabulary
• Punctuatiion
• Spelling
• handwriting
Techniques of TestingTechniques of Testing
OBJECTIVE
True/false Multiple choice Matching CompletionRearrangement/Transformation
SUBJECTIVE
Short answerEssay and paragraph/ Discourses
Reports/letter/Notice
Abilities an essay can testAbilities an essay can test
Vocabulary
Spelling and Punctuation
Coherence
Cohesion
Style
Organization
Ideas
Grammar
Essay
Popular viewsPopular views
• “to form and encourage learning” – Smith
• “Assessment should be guided by teaching and learning, congruent with it, follow the same principles as in teaching and learning and it should be valid, reliable and fair” - Cameron