II. Assessment Methods
• Teacher’s assessment • Continuous assessment • Students’ self-assessment • Portfolios
III. Assessment Criteria
1. Criterion-referenced assessment
IV. Assessment Principles
• Assess authentic use of language in reading, speaking, listening and writing;
• Assess literacy and language in a variety of contexts;
• Parents value the feedback about their children’s performance from the teachers and the school.
• Students need to know what they have accomplished, be aware of what they need to work on next and build up their confidence from what they have achieved.
• Administrators need to know whether the programmes they have planned are working well.
• Teachers need to know what has been done and what needs to be done next
• Assess the environment, the instruction, and the students;
• Assess processes as well as products;
• Analyse patterns of errors in language and literacy;
• Be based on normal developmental patterns and behaviour in language and literacy acquisition;
• Clarify and use standards when assessing reading, writing and content knowledge;
3. Individual-referenced assessment
Individual-referenced assessment is based on how well the learner is performed relative to his or her own previous performance.
Unit 15
Assessment in Language Teaching
Aims of the Unit
- to understand the purpose for assessment;
- to learn the methods for assessment; - to study criteria for assessment; - to get to know the principles of
• Involving students and parents, as well as other personnel in the assessment process;
• Be an ongoing part of every day.
V. Testing in Assessment
• Questions and answers • True or false questቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱons • Multiple-choice questions • Gap-filling completion • Matching questions • Dictation • Transformation • Translation • Essay writing • Interview
Criterion-referenced language assessment is based on a fixed standard or a set criterion.
2. Norm-referenced assessment
Norm-referenced assessment is designed to measure how the performance of a particular student or group of students compares with the performance of another student or group of students whose scores are given as the norm.
assessment; - to understand the role of testing in
language assessment
I. Assessment Purpose
The people involved in education have some reasons to consider assessment necessary: