Assess The Importance Of Learning And Assessment In Research
Understanding learning and assessment
To enable and assess learning it is important to understand how individuals learn in different ways and in different speeds. As a teacher it is important to understand the theories of how and why people learn, so that the individual needs of the learners are addressed. There are many learning theories who have studied how and why people learn some examples are Pavlov, skinner, Watson and Thorndike who are behaviourists.Bruner, Gardener, Lewin, Gagne and Piaget who are cognitivists and constructivists.
Behaviorism looked at learning in a scientific way, theorist of the time believed that they could teach anything as they could condition an animal to behave in a particular way. The person was conditioned …show more content…
My scheme of work covers the four skills of teaching a language (reading-writing-speaking-listening).
We select the assessment which allowed us to measure student skills in terms of fluency, accuracy, appropriateness, and complexity. Each of the skills areas have criteria features designed to act assessment indicators for the analyzing of students abilities in reading ,writing, listening and speaking. We analyse the usefulness of task according to validity, reliability, fairness, authenticity and practicality.
Summative assessment is the formal testing of what has been learned in order to produce marks or grades. This is different from formative assessment; in which emphasis on on going assessments of different types used to judge how best to help students learn further. The diagnostic assessment is important because it gives the teacher valuable information on how to remediate students and adjust the curriculum to meet each student unique need.
Therefore it is crucial to decide what you want to test in each area of listening, speaking, writing and reading. An example of this is the listening task which assessed word, phrase and sentence recognition skills, scanning skills, and skills relating to understanding cohesive features of spoken …show more content…
9-Keep to turn-round schedules: it is important that students know when their work will be marked and returned to them, and that these schedules are seen to be adhered to by all of the staff who assess their work.
10-Involve students: give students a full print-out of the mark sheet after each piece of work has been returned to a class, and let them check their own script against the master copy. When working with large groups ,it is only too easy to transpose marks accidentally. Students will let you know very quickly if the mark on your records is less than the mark you wrote on their script.
11-Give students responsibility: many colleges expect students to keep their own assessed work and to provide it on demand for external moderators and examiners. You do not have to stack all the files in your office for safe keeping.
My lesson was about the simple past tense. I illustrated the use the simple past tense. Moreover the learners knew the indicators of the past tense like: yesterday, last (week, month, year, and
To enable and assess learning it is important to understand how individuals learn in different ways and in different speeds. As a teacher it is important to understand the theories of how and why people learn, so that the individual needs of the learners are addressed. There are many learning theories who have studied how and why people learn some examples are Pavlov, skinner, Watson and Thorndike who are behaviourists.Bruner, Gardener, Lewin, Gagne and Piaget who are cognitivists and constructivists.
Behaviorism looked at learning in a scientific way, theorist of the time believed that they could teach anything as they could condition an animal to behave in a particular way. The person was conditioned …show more content…
My scheme of work covers the four skills of teaching a language (reading-writing-speaking-listening).
We select the assessment which allowed us to measure student skills in terms of fluency, accuracy, appropriateness, and complexity. Each of the skills areas have criteria features designed to act assessment indicators for the analyzing of students abilities in reading ,writing, listening and speaking. We analyse the usefulness of task according to validity, reliability, fairness, authenticity and practicality.
Summative assessment is the formal testing of what has been learned in order to produce marks or grades. This is different from formative assessment; in which emphasis on on going assessments of different types used to judge how best to help students learn further. The diagnostic assessment is important because it gives the teacher valuable information on how to remediate students and adjust the curriculum to meet each student unique need.
Therefore it is crucial to decide what you want to test in each area of listening, speaking, writing and reading. An example of this is the listening task which assessed word, phrase and sentence recognition skills, scanning skills, and skills relating to understanding cohesive features of spoken …show more content…
9-Keep to turn-round schedules: it is important that students know when their work will be marked and returned to them, and that these schedules are seen to be adhered to by all of the staff who assess their work.
10-Involve students: give students a full print-out of the mark sheet after each piece of work has been returned to a class, and let them check their own script against the master copy. When working with large groups ,it is only too easy to transpose marks accidentally. Students will let you know very quickly if the mark on your records is less than the mark you wrote on their script.
11-Give students responsibility: many colleges expect students to keep their own assessed work and to provide it on demand for external moderators and examiners. You do not have to stack all the files in your office for safe keeping.
My lesson was about the simple past tense. I illustrated the use the simple past tense. Moreover the learners knew the indicators of the past tense like: yesterday, last (week, month, year, and