Evaluate student´s performance

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Classroom assessment: this process can lead students to be motivated about permanent evaluation. it not always seem as a quality grading, it baased on students´needs, strenghts and weaknesses but also in adaptations or accomodations.

It involving the nexts questions:

what are the purpose of teh assessment

who is the centered of the assessment

does it encourage student self-evaluation

does it consider individual needs

how it eill be graded

how will the results be used

Teachers have to use the assessment as a tool to gather information.

2. Classroom assessment concepts

Quantitative assesments: numerical scores estimates characteristics or behaviors. it is formal or paper - based assessments.

Qualitative assessment: it could be an informal assessment that looks for specific ehaviors or skills development.

Measurement: is the process of getting numerical description obout the attributes of an individual skils.

Reiability; how consistently an assessment tools product measure features of students´performance.

Validity: Wheter or not an assessment measures , how well a test measures and address the entailed proposed use of the test.

3. pre-assessment

iT IS BASED oN THE regulation stated in (Reglamento a la ley orgánica de Educación Intercultural) the assessment process has to start with a diagnostic test. it occurs before sting he formal instroction, and it answers to the questions:

What can students actually do?

What students know or don´t know?

how developed are the language skills?

how students apply the knowledge in real-life contexts?

It implicates behaviors, learning styles, interests and personal background, as a product, teachers are capable to provide more feedback based on specific students´needds problems-.

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5. Formative assessment

are tools and stratuegies employed by grade-level and other teachers to determine what and how students are learning, formative assessnts motivates and challenges to higher levels of curricular achievements, is a process that allows to check the directon of instruction every w steps, rather han waiting until reaching the end of the lesson.

steps for taking action to move closer to the goal.

Explia clarify learning intentions, goals, achievement criteria.

Disign tasks and activities that elicit evidence of learning

pvde positiv feedback

encourage students to be r esources for one another

develop students to be accountabilit about their own learning process.

6. Summative assessment

the results of summative assessment have purposes of grading, promotion or certification because they are based on students´judgement.

7. Norm-referenced evaluation

it is used for evaluatons basic skills, identify specific learning disabilities.

8. Citerion-referenced evaluaton

is based on the number of correct answers provided by students.

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Performance-based assessment

One of the main concerns of English teachers is to anhace their assessment competences in order to improve their daily practice in classroom. How todesignild, score, analyze and interpret results.

A good assessment product requieres effective methods and resources which lead us to make right and appropriate decisions in the teaching-learning process. Taking into consideration te different kinds of environment treahers in their proffessional career.

Project or report, PROJECTS ARE CONSIDERED AS SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS RELATED TO A GIVEN TOPIC,They are the focused in getting specific and pretending goals.

Resaearch report can be consider as a piece of academic writting that provides analysis, interpretation and argument based on in-depth independent research

Log or journal: the activity supportive the focus on what students can do. Use of language, modeling greammar, punctuation, vocabulary, sentences structure, cohesion, coherence and accuracy are he most common criteria for assessing.

Media product

it ioncludes digital management and language literacy skills. studetns have gottten and developed enormous quantity of technological abilities. teahcers should take advantage of teh fact and include as a formal tool of assessment some of videos, podcasts, stream.

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Performance assessment

When learning accurs in meaningful context, students have t he chance to use it and display it. Performance assessment let students´storage long term learning by applying the skills ans knowledge gained.

Oral presentation; Most part of one´s successful depends on how good speaking skills are.

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Play-based

the assessment is coherent with the methodology, When students are not aware about the learning process because they are playing . the benefits of this kind assessment are multiple from social interaction. like role play. dramatize events.

Debate: is a process and an activity that has long history in democratic contries, people can express their point of view lated to a specific topic.