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effective assessment in EFL or ESL
Started this discussion. Last reply by Justin Scoggin Feb 5, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Is all effective assessment in EFL or ESL classes performance-based?
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Assessing Student Performance in Online Classrooms
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 10:25am 0 Comments 1 Like
Assessment in on-line classes presents significant challenges for both students and teachers, especially for teachers like me who give a lot of importance to evidence gathered throughout the course by performance tasks.
The purpose of framing assessment around performance tasks is to clearly distinguish between those who really understand from those who only seem to because through performance understanding becomes "visible". This is the reason that assessments are frequently…
ContinueA Sports Analogy for Assessment
Posted on March 25, 2010 at 3:30pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
On page 96 of the book "A Repair Kit for Grading", the author (Ken O'Connor) draws a useful
analogy between performance-based assessment and a band or a sports team:
"It is critical that both teachers and students recognize when assessment is primarily for learning (formative) and when it is primarily of learning…
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Also, I would suggest clicking on the "Read 1st" tab at the top of the main page. This could give you some good ideas for using this site.
Feel free to add any ideas, blog posts, forum discussions, or videos that you think would be helpful to people as they are considering AFL in their classroom/schools.
If you have ideas for content that should be added, feel free to let me know. I look forward to hearing from you in Forum Discussions and reading your ideas in any Blog Posts you care to write.
Thanks again!