MARIANO GALVEZ UNIVERSITY

P.E.M EN INGLÉS

2011

PORTFOLIO

Evaluation Techniques

Berta Lucia Gómez Urzúa

INDEX

1. Introduction

2. Class logs

3. Documents of Evaluation and Assessment

4. Documents about test building

5. Documents about Test Types

6. Conclusions of the course

7. Annexes:

a. Weekly planning

b. Pre-chart

c. Blue print

d. Final evaluation

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CLASS LOG

Evaluatión vrs. Assessment

July 23th 2011

Today’s class was very interesting. We learnt a new face of evaluation and

how is it different from an assessment. An evaluation is more formal or planned

than an assessment. An assessment can be done at any time of the teaching

process.

Lucia Gómez

CLASS LOG

Group presentations about Formal and Informal Assessment.

July 30th 2011

Today’s class was very dynamic. We were organized in groups to present

activities for Formal and Informal assessment. Every group was very different and

all of them gave us ideas to improve and also to apply in our classes. Something

interesting were the topics, each group presented their ideas with much innovated

topics.

I believed it would be good if every group would give an explanation or would

clarify which activities were Formal and which were Informal, so we can learn

more clearly.

Lucia Gómez Urzúa

CLASS LOG

Blue print August 06th 2011

Today´s class, honestly, was kind of confusing. Today we learnt about the

whole deal about test building. I believe that we are used to make test in a very

automatic way, without thinking about all the things that we must have to include

or take into account.

The blue print is a chart that helps us evaluate to what level of skills we got with our

students with each topic. And according to it, we must include the same

percentage of items in the test. We use formulas to know the exact time and

number that a test must have.

Lucia Gómez

CLASS LOG

Blue print and the previous chart August 20th 2011

In order to create a blue print, we must measure the time that we spent on

each topic of the unit, for this, is necessary to make a pre-chart. This chart will give

us the information that we need to know how many items of each topic we should

include in the test.

Another interesting fact about this is that it also helps us to measure or evaluate

the way we are teaching, and in what way are we teaching the topics. For

example, we tent to make a lot of activities for our students to remember, but we

do not make them analyze or apply.

Lucia Gómez

CLASS LOG

Test building September 9th 2011

Today’s class was very interesting. It was about how to make a test. Surprise

it takes more than we thought, it requires time and patient in order to create a test

that will be useful for our students. The steps to fallow are quite simple, but we have

to be aware of many things in the moment of building one.

The first thing is to make a list of all the content I taught during my curse. Then I

have to think about the time I spend on each topic, so I can be sure of what

content is going to be more important. Now, something interesting is that in this

process, we can also evaluate the way we have been teaching. This is because

the next step is to think about to what level of the taxonomy we got with each

topic.

According to this, we will decide what kind of series we are going to make, if it is

going to be only memory, applying or creating. After all this is done, we have to

think of the percentage that each series is going to have and also each item. It is

very important to make sure that each series is going to have the adequate

number of items and that each is going to be well scored.

Finally, we make the number to see if everything is fine with the number of items

and the score of our test.

This class taught me that making a test is really more difficult and interesting than I

thought.

Lucia Gómez Urzúa

CLASS LOG

Test Types October 22nd 2011

There are many test types when we talk about the form they are building

and the skill they are measuring. In order to make a good test, we can take into

account the next types of tests that are used in every level of skill and also in any

grade or topic.

Multiple choice

Assessment performance

True of false

Essay questions

Matching

Short answers

Something important is to make sure that before using any of the types, we must

have made exercise or practices in class, so students won’t get confused with the

instructions of the way the items are building.

Each group presented very interesting things about each type, one of the most

interesting war essay questions, because even it seems easier for the student, it is

very complicated for the teacher.

My group and I talked about assessment performances, and I really liked it

because I think is non stressful form to evaluate and the only thing that we need

are the rubrics in order to objective in the score the give to each student.

Lucia Gómez

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Evaluation techniques curse can be described

as a very simple, but useful curse. It gave us tools

that we can put in practice from the moment of

learning and also the advantages are more for

the teacher than for the students in deed.

The difference of assessment and evaluation is

basically the time and how formal it turns during

the process of teaching.

We can, and must assess our students in every

moment of teaching, because we can measure

if the objectives are being reached or not. With

a good assessment we can make a decision of

turning the way we are teaching certain topic,

in order to make it better for our students.

Test building has to be rely on how did we teach

the topic, how much time did we spend in the

topic and also the kind of activities that we use

to practice the topic.

Test types are a very good form to vary the way

we evaluate our students, using the different

techniques of forms, we can guarantee that the

test that we make are going to be valid based

on the way we taught our classes.