Unit 18 Assessment types and tasks

In this unit we talked about assessment which means judging learner’s performance by collecting information about it, teacher can use assessment task to assess learners informally or formally. Informal assessment when teacher observes students how well they are doing something for example participation on the other hand formal assessment is when teacher asses learners through exams and give them a grade.

There are several types of assessment test teacher can use to know how much his/her students know for example at the beginning of the class the teacher can use a diagnostic test to measure what students know and what don’t know. Then if we want to know what level the learners are a placement test can be used.

In addition to find out if learners have learnt well we can use a progress test for example a unit of the course book and we use the information of this test to know if we need to recover the information here or continue. Also we can use summative or achievement test at the end of the term or course to see if they master what they have learnt during that time.

Useful resources:

•  http://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/teaching-and-learning/assessment/types-assessment
•       www.finchpark.com/courses/tkt/Unit_17/assessment.pdf
• http://education.qld.gov.au/staff/learning/diversity/teaching/assessment.html