Thursday 20 December 2012
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Tuesday 18 December 2012
Saturday 15 December 2012
FEEDBACK: Anderson's Article
I really like the idea promoted in the article about the need to shift
from traditional assessment to alternative assessment. The shift is
crucially needed, just to be fair, I think? We are all different people
with different learning styles; some good in this area, some are good in
that area, etc. So, yeah, it might be a good idea to shift or to
integrate the assessment so that students will have the chance to be
assessed not just through exam, but also through a variety of
instructional and assessment strategies. If we are to do the shifting,
of course there are a lot of consideration to be taken before we could
really implement the shifting; the teacher needs to receive
well-training course to be able to run the alternative assessment, the
parents need to be made understood about what's happening, etc.
Thanks to the writer, I now see the differences/gap between traditional and alternative assessment. Since traditional assessment is exam-oriented, the teaching and learning is passive; the teacher will do most of the talking and students, whether they listen to the teaching or not, they will still need to sit for the exams and face the questions which they know or don't know the answers. Experiencing this back in secondary school, in an exam class, I tend to feel very sleepy especially if it's a subject I don't really like. I just loved English class, but the activities … talking about the theme/setting/characters/etc of a literature component; translating text; answering worksheet and submit then get the paper back; receive bad or good praise from teacher; feedback …???
Rubric - I like this. Though it's not easy to prepare this (for me) unless you are an expert who deal with preparing rubric everyday, I think it's a good scoring tool (holistic/analytic) and the end result should be able to let the students know what part or in what area they need to improve. Shifting from traditional to alternative assessment, we should experience teaching and learning in a more active way. The teacher, being a facilitator, assists the students' learning, and the students also should be responsible with their own learning. Yes, I would love to see the shifting from traditional to alternative assessment in this country become successful.
Thanks to the writer, I now see the differences/gap between traditional and alternative assessment. Since traditional assessment is exam-oriented, the teaching and learning is passive; the teacher will do most of the talking and students, whether they listen to the teaching or not, they will still need to sit for the exams and face the questions which they know or don't know the answers. Experiencing this back in secondary school, in an exam class, I tend to feel very sleepy especially if it's a subject I don't really like. I just loved English class, but the activities … talking about the theme/setting/characters/etc of a literature component; translating text; answering worksheet and submit then get the paper back; receive bad or good praise from teacher; feedback …???
Rubric - I like this. Though it's not easy to prepare this (for me) unless you are an expert who deal with preparing rubric everyday, I think it's a good scoring tool (holistic/analytic) and the end result should be able to let the students know what part or in what area they need to improve. Shifting from traditional to alternative assessment, we should experience teaching and learning in a more active way. The teacher, being a facilitator, assists the students' learning, and the students also should be responsible with their own learning. Yes, I would love to see the shifting from traditional to alternative assessment in this country become successful.
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Go Greet Mandy!
Hey there! Try this out! MakeItShareIt. If you like drawing, this is for you. You can even create your own 2D animation. It's very interesting.
Here's mine! Check it out :)
Mandy
Mandy Saying "Hi!"
Here's mine! Check it out :)
Mandy
Mandy Saying "Hi!"
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Smile!
"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day."
~ Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Monday 5 November 2012
LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
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"Assessment is appraising or estimating the level or magnitude of some attribute of a person (Mousavi, 2009, p. 36). In educational practice, assessment is an ongoing process that encompasses a wide range of methodological techniques. Whenever a student responds to a question, offers a comment, or tries out a new word or structure, the teacher subconsciously makes an appraisal of the student's performance."
"Test, on the other hand, are a subset of assessment, a genre of assessment techniques. They are prepared administrative procedures that occur at identifiable times in a curriculum when learners muster all their faculties to offer peak performance, knowing that their responses are being measured and evaluated."
(Brown H. D. & Priyanvada Abeywickrama, 2010)
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