TYPES

OF

ASSESSMETS
BY HECTOR DEVIA ROBAYO

Initial or diagostic
assessement: To know
the learners' current
skills and needs and
wants
Informal assessment:
observation, interviews,
etc. Formal assessment:
examinations and
presentations

Authetic assessment: it
emulates the real world
situations where learners
Formative demostrates their
knowledges and skills.
assessement: To
check if students are
learning and
developing skills, in
order to indroduce
the need changes
Peer-assessment:
classmattes review the
work of another peer
according a check-list
provided by the teacher.

Summative
Assessment: to see if
studentes already
Self-assessment: The
learn and developed
learner's analysis of their
the desire skills. It own understanding and
also serve as report. skills.
 Feedback

Feedback is an integral part of

assessment. It is not enough to gave a
score to learners. It is important to
explain what it is in need to be
improved and how. Feedback can be
done on formative and summative
assesment.

Referenccs reviewed
Brown, H. D. (2006). Language assessment:
Principles and classroom practices
(Nachdr.).
Center for Adult English Language
Acquisition. (2007). The CAELA guide for
adult ESL trainers.
Educational Testing Service. (2009).
Guidelines for the Assessment of English-
Language Learners. Retrieved from:
www.ets.org/s/about/pdf/ell_guidelines.pdf
Frankfurt International School. Assessing
ESL students in the subject classroom.
Retrieved from. www.fis.edu