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.

Monday 5 November 2012

LTA Tutorial: Week 2 & 3

Worksheet 2a-1
Worksheet 2a-2


Worksheet 2b-1
Worksheet 2b-2
Worksheet 2b-3

Formative Assessment in Schools


Formative Assessment, Common Core, and ELLs


Assessing Language Proficiency and Common Core


LANGUAGE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT


Main Reference
"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)