UNIT 18 ASSESSMENT TYPES AND TASKS

                                                ASSESSMENT TYPES AND TASKS

Assessment tasks include the collection of data on students learning in order to improve student´s leaning. There are many reasons why we as teachers must assess our students. We can evaluate them formally or informally.

First of all, informal assessment is done when the teacher just observe the student in order to see how well they are doing something, then it came the feedback but in a general way. According to Dorothy Zakrajsek, Lois Carnes, Frank E. Pettigrew (Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education, Volume 1, 2003)  “informal assessment incorporates ongoing formative evaluation into the learning experiences with a primary goal of promoting students improvement.” I consider this type of assessment as more meaningful and suitable for learners of all ages.

On the opposite the formal assessment, is done when students are tested or evaluated with exams so the teacher will give them a grade.  Based on the same author, he argues that” Formative assessment are typically conducted as a summative culmination to an instructional unit” because it is applied at the end of a unit.

So in order to test our students we can use diagnostic test, which is used at the beginning of the course to test student´s knowledge about the previous course. Then we have the rest of tests such us placement test, progress test,  achievement test, summative test and  proficiency test.  According to Drs. Y.k.Singh, T.K. Sharma and Brijesh upadhya (Edu. Technology:tech of Tests, 2008)

Say that “the closer that two tests are to each other in the spectrum, the more nearly alike will be the types of learning measured.” It means that it has a sequence each test depends on the other and must be given feedback, so that process should be done by every student.

Bibliography:

Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education, Volume 1. (2003). Canada.

Edu. Technology:tech of Tests. (2008).