TESTING AND EVALUATION IN ELT

TASK 1 – ASSESSMENT CONTEXT

RAFAEL HERNAN ORTEGA CORDON

CODE: 1.090.507.575

FREDY ARLEY MOLANO ZAMBRANO

TUTOR

GROUP: 551020

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA- UNAD

CEAD CUCUTA

2021
 STEP 1. CHECKING

Assessment is the systematic process of documenting

and using empirical information about knowledge,

What´s assessment? skills, attitudes, and beliefs. By conducting the

assessment, teachers try to improve student learning.

Evaluation designates the set of activities that serve

to give a judgment, make an assessment, measure

What´s evaluation? “something” (object, situation, process) in

accordance with certain value criteria with which

said judgment is issued.

A test is used to examine someone's knowledge about

something to determine what the person knows or

has learned. It measures the level of skill or

What´s testing?
knowledge that has been achieved.

STEP 2. Q&A

What is Standardized test in education?

Standardized tests or exams are assessment instruments that measure students' particular
strengths or weaknesses, detect population groups in need of educational improvement,
identify factors that impact student performance, and observe changes or progress in
educational attainment.
What is the purpose of a standardized test?

Through these evaluations it is possible to obtain an overview of the level and quality of the
educational systems or of the participating populations, in such a way that the areas for
improvement and the challenges that are presented to the school communities to promote
academic development are identified. of the students. By identifying challenges, teachers
can reorient our pedagogical strategies so that students reach satisfactory levels of learning.

What are the types of standardized test?

There are various types of standardized tests such as achievement, psychometrics,

knowledge or skills, which are frequently applied in the educational or professional area,
and are responsible for measuring teaching systems, based on the capabilities of
individuals. These assessment instruments can be applied to a part of the population
(samples) or to an entire population (census), allowing the statistical analysis of context
factors such as geographical areas, ages, gender or the socioeconomic conditions of the
participants.

What are the norms for standardized tests?

The standardization of a test is defined as the process by which a test is applied to a

representative sample of a population in order to obtain the raw scores (Aiken, 2003).
These scores will be those that determine the standard of the tests.

STEP 3. REFLECTION

Explain some strategies you will use to help the students to improve their English
level.
Distributed practice: Instead of dedicating one day a week to your English studies, better
study half an hour every day: this technique of extending your practice over a period of
time, distributed in small fragments, will make it more likely that you will get results.

Practice tests: You can practice completing units in your course, or setting yourself the task
of practicing the vocabulary learned each week, writing a short text without consulting your
teaching material.

Social learning: Try to find a social situation (or a friend) in which you have to practice
your English, for example join one of our Group Classes. This type of learning will allow
you to listen and copy sounds and structures of the language.

What steps are necessary to develop an evaluation?

We can consider three phases or stages of evaluation: the initial evaluation, which includes
the context evaluation and the diagnostic evaluation; the process evaluation or formative
evaluation and the evaluation of results or summative evaluation, also called exit
evaluation.

What are the best times to apply an evaluation?

Initial-diagnostic evaluation (At the beginning, as a starting point): It is located at the

beginning of the Secondary Education cycles and some of its courses as the ideal moments
to carry out an initial evaluation of the students

Process-formative evaluation (During the development of a teaching-learning process)

It is carried out throughout the entire didactic process and will allow us to know the
progress of the learning of each and every one of the students in order, consequently, to
carry out the pertinent curricular reinforcements, adaptations and diversifications. A good
time for this type of review is the end of each Didactic Unit of the subject.
Final-summative evaluation (Reflection and synthesis at the end of a period or the entire
process) It allows to know the degree of learning of the student. It determines what is the
level of learning that has been achieved and that can be taken as a starting point in a new
process.

What types of evaluation do you know? What are the most recommendable for you?

Diagnostic evaluation (also called pre-evaluation)

Formative assessment

Objective-based assessment

What is the difference between formative and summative assessment?

The formative assessment is used to obtain information on the level of understanding that
each of the students has achieved throughout the teaching-learning process.
Summative assessment is the one used in traditional teaching. It consists of assessing the
level of achievement of the students in relation to the acquired learning and transforming
this assessment into grades or grades, which are attributed based on a comparison with the
group average.
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