Testing and evaluation in English Language Teaching
Initial Activity
What is evaluation?
It’s one of
the most important items in the education, it’s reflects what the students are
grasping, as well if they can understand what the teacher is teaching. To
students help in the way they can measure what are they leaning and fix their
doubts for better comprehension in their process of learning.
Evaluation
helps to evaluate what of the learners are safe and comprise the class, if they
enjoying their leaning experience, also what attitude they have toward class,
therefore this would lead us to know what is the participation in these
learning processes, allowing us to see their interest in learning, as make some
corrective measures that must involve the whole class, and maximize the time,
resources, have new ideas of learning or improving what we have.
What steps are necessary to develop an evaluation?
There are
different points to consider first identified the good results for the
evaluation as the data the learners have had during the period of the classes,
to obtain the most accurate results.
It’s
necessary to developing an evaluation plan. In this point we should to know
what is the objectives and goals we looking at.
Also we
should address with suitable questions to fit the propose of the school. Then
try to get different methods of evaluation in order to find out what is the
best working for, as well we need to look for the timeline in each evaluation
activity, in this stage of the evaluation is better to be clear what kind of
question are formulate it, because some question should be take more time to
answer that others.
What are the best times to apply an evaluation?
As soon as
the learners can grasp the topics of the classes this should be the best time
to implement the evaluation, so anytime should
As soon as possible! The best
time to do this is before you implement the initiative. After that, you can do
it anytime, but the earlier you develop it and begin to implement it, the
better off your initiative will be, and the greater the outcomes will be at the
end.
Remember, evaluation is more than
just finding out if you did your job. It is important to use evaluation data to
improve the initiative along the way.
What types of evaluation do you know? What are the
most recommendable for you?
The types
of evaluation there are many depend of what we want to evaluate, according to
this here are some of them. (Process Evaluation, Outcome Evaluation)
Process Evaluation focus in
specific activities of the program to measure the quality and the outputs who
received it. Then we can evaluate whether the target group have been reached,
also the activities are reaching all parts of the program teaching. Lastly
about the materials and the information are suitable for the learners.
Outcome
Evaluation the target is to design an
outcome evaluation, to measure the progress of the program of the school and
how well the program aim has been achieved. This type of evaluation help to
evaluate if the goal of the school program has been reached in this case there
are some factors that can be contributed in order to have some change if they
need it.
What
can determine how reliable the evaluation results are?
Probably if the results of the evaluation affect the
school program and consider that information is accurate for the students and
the school, after that get some structure in a way to achieve the school goal
of the evaluation. As well this result help to find ways to modify or improve
the school program for evaluation. The evaluation results will most be making
decision about how much the evaluation is suitable to give the results expected
it. Then any decision make can best assist with plan development and data
reporting based on evaluation results.
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