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