ASSESSMENT William E Yugsn Bachman 2004 defined assessment

ASSESSMENT William E. Yugsán

• Bachman (2004) defined assessment as “a process of collecting information about something that we are interested in, according to procedures that are systematic and substantially grounded” • Ari Huhta (as cited in Spolsky & Hult, 2008) referred to assessment as “all kinds of procedures used to assess individuals (e. g. , informal observations, selfassessments, quizzes, interviews, tests)” (p. 469).

• To discover, judge, or form an opinion on learners’ ability, achievement, proficiency or progress either formally or informally. • Assessment means judging learners' performance by collecting information about it. (Spratt, Pullverness, Williams, 2012)

- We assess learners for different reasons - using different methods to do so TYPES OF ASSESSMENT Informal assessment we observe learners to see how well they are doing something and then often give them comments on their performance. Formal assessment It is when we assess learners through tests or exams and give their work a mark or a grade. TASK

FORMAL ASSESSMENT • They are taken under exam-like conditions. • Learners at their own • desks, working silently and within a time limit. • Consist of a set tasks.

FORMAL ASSESSMENT • A score is given. • They are administered by the teacher or an official. • The tasks used formal assessment depend on what aspect of language or skills the teacher wants to assess.

FORMAL ASSESSMENT Objective task The marker does 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

Pros - No judgement involved in their marking. - They are quick to mark, and the results are accurate Cons - they do not test real use of the language, but the skills or knowledge that language use is based on

EXAMPLES: • multiple-choice questions • gap-fill (filling in gaps in sentences or texts) • table completion for listening, or reading for specific information • cloze • True / false • Matching • Transformation sentences