Explaining assessment procedures
You also need to introduce students to the assessment criteria that will be usedduring the year, e.g.… how often will formal tests take place?… what form will continuous assessment take?… what criteria will you use in assessing students’ work?You may need to explain some of this in L1, particularly when explaining therationale behind the assessment procedures. You should show them examples ofcriteria used in the assessment of different kinds of work, e.g. written work, oralwork or groupwork (behaviour, etc.).Here is an example.
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You may need to introduce the students to the idea of self evaluation andassessment if they have not done this before. Again, you can show them whatthey will use for this, e.g. self-access record sheets (
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2Testing throughout
You need to keep track of students’ progress and achievement throughout the
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year. This is probably best done through a mixture of formal testing and
CONTINUOUSASSESSMENT
. The following points are of particular relevance to mixed-ability classes.
Record-keeping
It is essential that both you and the students keep a record of work they havecovered. For example, if you have used graded tasks, you should know whichlevel of difficulty was done each time. It was suggested before that colour coding is the best way of doing this. Similarly, with self-access activities,records should be kept of what students have done.
Counselling
Individual counselling should be carried out. Students can contribute to this ifthey have been asked to keep records of work and evaluate their ownperformance as a matter of course (e.g. at the end of lessons, blocks of work,after self-access activities). Counselling can take place during self-accesssessions or outside class time.
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GROUPWORKUsuallySometimesRarely
Uses English as much as possibleTakes an active role in discussionListens to othersGets on well with other group membersCarries out tasks as allocated by groupOverall comment:
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