READING GUIDE Chapter 7- Assessment (Shin & Crandall, 2014)

1. Complete the following table based on the chapter. Paraphrase the information.

ASSESSMENT is … TESTING is … EVALUATION is…

In education, the
term assessment refers to
the wide variety of methods
or tools that educators use
to evaluate, measure, and
document the academic
readiness, learning
progress, skill acquisition,
or educational needs of
students.
Almost everybody has
experienced testing during
his or her life. Grammar
tests, driving license test
etc. A test is used to
examine someone’s
knowledge of something to
determine what that person
knows or has learned. It
measures the level of skill
or knowledge that has been
reached. An evaluative
device or procedure in
which a sample of an
examinee’s behavior in a
specified domain is
obtained and subsequently
evaluated and scored using
a standardized process 
In education how much a
child has succeeded in his
aims, can only be
determined through
evaluation. Thus there is a
close relationship between
evaluation and aims. Also,
Education is considered as
an investment in human
beings in terms of
development of human
resources, skills,
motivation, knowledge and
the like. Evaluation helps to
build an educational
programme, assess its
achievements and improve
upon its effectiveness.

2. Complete the following T-Chart. Include definitions and examples.

FORMAL ASSESSMENT INFORMAL ASSESSMENT

Formal assessment uses formal tests
or structured continuous assessment
to evaluate a learner's level of
language. It can be compared to
informal assessment, which involves
observing the learners' performance
as they learn and evaluating them
from the data gathered.
Informal assessment involves observing the
learners as they learn and evaluating them
from the data gathered. It can be compared to
formal assessment, which involves evaluating a
learner's level of language in a formal way,
such as through an exam or structured
continuous assessment.

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Summative assessment evaluates
a learner's progress up to that
point and provides a summary of
where they are. It can be
compared to formative
assessment, which gives the
teacher and learner helpful
information for future work.
Formative assessment is the use of
assessment to give the learner and the
teacher information about how well
something has been learnt so that they can
decide what to do next. It normally occurs
during a course. Formative assessment can
be compared with summative assessment,
which evaluates how well something has
been learnt in order to give a learner a

3. Design a mind map/graphic organizer or any kind of visual that helps you understand and
remember the 7 Guidelines for Effective Assessment of Young Learners
1- Assessment should mirror learning.
Should reflect the goals and objectives of the
curriculum and provide children with the
opportunity to demosntrate what they know
and can do you with the language in tasks that
are similar to the ones they have engaged with
in learning.
2- Assessment should contribuite to
leanring.
Effective assessment should help both
teachers and learners. It shoud provide
information to learners and their parents
on their progrese in learning English.
3- Assessment should motivate learners
and build learner confidence.
Assessment in childrens language
learning, as part of their early
experience,can influence whether or not
pupils choose to continue learning the
foreing language or whether they lose
interest and motivation.
grade.
ALTERNATIVE OR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS
Alternative assessments, also referred to as
performance tests or authentic assessments,
are used to determine what students can and
cannot do, in contrast to what they do or do not
know. In other words, an alternative
assessment measures applied proficiency more
than it measures knowledge. Typical examples
of alternative assessments include portfolios,
project work, and other activities requiring
some type of rubric.
6- Assessment should be
contextualized and reflect relevant
tasks and language for Young
learners.
7 Guidelines
Quizzes and tests ask students to
respond to a set of ítems that are not
thematically related or relevant to
their lives.
5- Assessment should allow all learners
to experience succes , while providing
advanced learners opportunities to
demostrate their proficiency.
Just as taching needs to provide
differentiation of tasks for different
learners, so does assessment.
4- Assessment should include a
variety of techniques for
leaners different intelligences
and learning styles. 7- Assessment should take place
over time.
Many standardized tests focus
on linguistic, logical- In order to provide evidence of
mathematical, and spatial growth, assessement should not
intellingences, which prevent be thought of as according only
many learners with other occasionally or at times when
learning styles or intelligences. important tests are given.
EFFECTIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES. Name ways/activities to assess the areas in the chart.
ASSESSING ORAL
LANGUAGE
-Assessing speaking: It can
be complex to assess.
Normally, teachers assess
comprehensibility and
communicatively( pronuncia
tion,grammar, vocabulary
and fluency)
-Use of rubrics
-Information gap activities to
assess as speaking as
listening.
- Instead of correcting
mistakes at the moment
they are made, it is better to
use as a way of teaching.
-Assessing listening: It can
be assessed from the
beginning in activities like to
follow commands or to
match.
it can be shown in subskills,
non-verbal activities, and in
speaking an writing.
-Students need to know the
purpose of the task.
- Teachers need to make the
tasks as communicative as
possible.
ASSESSING WRITTEN ASSESSING VOCABULARY
LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR
Assessing writing: It is Assessing grammar: It can
equally important to be be through oral or written
assessed. way.
- Depending on their level  By using stories
they can write more  We can use
complex things checklists
-The range of text also  Noting how often
influences on the way they the learner use the
have to do their work. grammar in oral
-Use of vocabulary and way.
grammar they have Assessing vocabulary: It
learned. comprises a large portion
of what teachers teach, so
Assessing reading: It it has to be homogeneous.
should match the tasks -Teachers can make
used in instruction. students self-assess to
-It has to be authentic report their own growth.
-Use activities where
students skim and scan
processes.
-Text selection is
important
-Texts have to be
interesting and appropiate
for students
- Other ways like shared
reading, oral readings, or
when they read
independently.