student teacher assessment
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Student andTeacher Assessment
Assessment
Classroom assessment is simply a means to discover if our students are learning what we are teaching
Instructors need effective ways to monitor learning throughout the language course
The fundamental questions necessary to ask are: “What are our students learning?” “How effectively are we teaching?”
Assessment Improves Teaching The data collected from various assessment
activities is very useful for improving teaching and learning. For example this can: Help students learn how to study Encourage teachers to analyze objectively what
happens in the classroom Guide students in a self-analysis of their own
learning processes
Assessment Improve Learning The purpose of classroom assessment is to
improve both learning and teaching Students are encouraged to focus on
learning the knowledge and skills of the course how well their learning is proceeding
Teachers focus on the success of their teaching
Teachers are given an opportunity to revise their methods
Process
Classroom assessment involves the design phase the assessment activity itself the follow-up to the assessment
Structured feedback should be shared between the instructors and students
Examples
The One-Minute Paper (Angelo and Cross 1993)
Please answer each of the following questions in one or two sentences: What was the most useful/meaningful thing you
learned during this session? What question(s) remain uppermost in your mind
as we end this session?
Assessing for Problems
Structure a short five-to seven-minute writing exercise in which students address these questions in class: What is creating problems for you at this time? Is the source of the problem in the material, in the
manner of teaching, or in your learning effort?
Problems
What would help solve the problem? What can you do as a student? What can I do as the teacher?
Conclusion
Improve both learning and teaching through effective assessment
Make necessary changes to instruction from information collected through the assessment process
Allow students to provide feedback to instructor for what is helping them learn and what more could be provided
Works Cited:
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching; Classroom Assessment Techniques; Diane M. Enerson, Kathryn M. Plank, and R. Neill Johnson. Penn State University www.psu.edu/celt/CATs.html
Litechy, Larry. CreatingActive Learning. Community College Press, 1998