Test types and Assessment
In this unit I learned that assessment is the judgement given to learners due to their performance. In order to assess students, the teacher uses different methods for it. As I learned in this unit, there are two types of assessment, formal nad informal.
Formal assessment is when we grade students through tests so that they receive a score. Meanwhile, informal assessment in when we see students performance often by giving comments with no any score. That would be wildly optimistic to mention other types of assessmet that I would surely apply in my classes, for example: at the beginning of the school year I would give students a diagnostic test to measure how much and well they know the subject they have studied before. We need to bear in mind the fact that tests take place according to the pace and lesson. For example, a placement test is given before getting enrolled in a course to decide in which level the student should go into. I consider it is important to give feedback after students have taken the test, usually being positive, avoiding negative attitude and making students feel they are okey, but they need extra effort to make it better. This feedback can be used to feed into our teaching and help learners become aware of their strenghts and weaknesess, which is called formative feedback.
Therefore, we can use another type of assessment which includes subjective and objective tasks. For example, subjective tasks need students' judgement that involves their oen thoughts. For example, students can be asked to write about a experience they have had. On the contrary, objective tasks do not have to judge whether an answer is right or wrong, or how right or how wrong the answer is, because there is only one answer. Objective tasks can include questions such as: multiple-choice, gap-fill, true/false, and other accurate answers.
To sum up, there are many types of assessments, in which students can work together and do peer assessment, or instead they can realize their own mistakes which is known as self-assessment.
Web pages you can visit:
1. Edutopia, (2014). Building Formative Assessment into Game-based Learning. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c2-kYxNyMc
3. UNSW, Australia. (2014). Library. Informing your Studies: Type of Assessment Tasks. Retrieved from: http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/c.php?g=100219&p=649269