This chapter is about evaluation, where teacher measures students’ knowledge with
assessment. There are different
types of test to assess students. For example, proficiency test (to assess overall language ability), achievement test (to assess learning at the end of a
course), placement (to place students on the right level)
and so on. So, students are tested with formal assessment (class test, it gives a grade) and informal assessment (observing students where they are creating
activities tasks, promotes a variety of washback). However, teachers need to
give grades for the test taken because teacher need to know if the students are
able to restore information in their long term memory. For that reason,
teachers can take an accumulative test to analyze if the students are able to
achieve in their learning process.
As teachers need to know different
teaching methodologies to teach students. Beside of methodology, the best way
to know if the student learned is applying different evaluation processes in
the class. It will be formal
(test) or informal
(asking questions, giving task to develop). Doing these activities can activate
students´ knowledge and make them to become critical thinker.
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Dear Patricia,
ResponderEliminarI was reading your reflection I concluded that learner- centered teaching is very interesting because it provides information of how to create a good rapport at classroom and also activities that we can apply.