Assessment - Parts of A Syllabus - Octavio

Luis Octavio Canseco Garca
Assesment
In many references, the terms assessment and evaluation are used synonymously. According to Nunan (1999), Evaluation is the collection and interpretation of information about aspects of the curriculum (including learners, teachers, materials, learning arrangements, etc.) for decision making purposes.
Luis Octavio Canseco Garca / Escuela de Idiomas / Universidad Regional del Sureste / Oaxaca / Mxico
Assesment is a subcomponent of evaluation. It refers to the tools, techniques, and procedures for collecting and interpreting information about what learner can and cannot do. Assesment is extremely related to goals and objectives as well as course content.
Traditionally, assessment practices are characterized by test designed, administered and graded by the teacher. Traditional techniques are exams, tests and quizzes.
Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students
Nonverbal Assessment Strategies
Physical Demonstration
To express academic concepts without speech, students can point or use other gestures. They can also be asked to perform hands-on tasks or to act out vocabulary, concepts, or events.
Pictorial Products
To elicit content knowledge without requiring students to speak or write, teachers can ask students to produce and manipulate drawings, dioramas, models, graphs, and charts.
Nonverbal Assessment Strategies
Oral Performances Or Presentations

Performance-based assessments include interviews, oral reports, role plays, describing, explaining, summarizing, retelling, paraphrasing stories or text material, and so on. Oral assessments should be conducted on an ongoing basis to monitor comprehension and thinking skills.
Oral and Written Products Content area logs

Designed to encourage the use of metacognitive strategies when students read expository text.
Reading response logs

Used for students' written responses or reactions to a piece of literature. Students may respond to questions--some generic, some specific to the literature--that encourage critical thinking, or they may copy a brief text on one side of the page and write their reflections on the text on the other side.
Oral and Written Products Writing assignment

This can be controlled or structured. The teacher can guide students through a pre-writing stage, which includes discussion, brainstorming, webbing, outlining, and so on. The results of pre-writing, as well as the independently written product, can be assessed.
Dialogue journals
Provide a means of interactive, ongoing correspondence between students and teachers. Students determine the choice of topics and participate at their level of English language proficiency.
Oral and Written Products
"Audio and video cassettes"

They can be made of student oral readings, presentations, dramatics, interviews, or conferences (with teacher or peers).
Portfolios
Portfolios are used to collect samples of student work over time to track student development.
The following types of materials can be included in a portfolio:
Audio- and videotaped recordings of readings or oral presentations.

Writing samples such as dialogue journal entries, book reports, writing assignments (drafts or final copies), reading log entries, or other writing projects.
Conference or interview notes and anecdotal records.

Checklists (by teacher, peers, or student).
Tests and quizzes.

A suggested grading scale for mexican students is:
10 Trabajo de calidad superior con mucha atencin al detalle. Asistencia perfecta o casi perfecta. El alumno aprovech de todas las oportunidades de participar y practicar en clase. 9 Trabajo muy fuerte, en trminos de calidad y esfuerzo. Pocas o ninguna inasistencia y una buena contribucin a las actividades en clase.
8 Por lo general, trabajo bueno. El alumno hizo un buen esfuerzo y produjo trabajos completos. Su asistencia fue buena y el alumno se involucr en la clase.
7 Trabajo adecuado. El alumno complet su trabajo con un nivel aceptable de calidad. Asistencia regular con algn esfuerzo de participar en clase.
6 No aprobatorio. El alumno no hizo las tareas asignadas, o produjo un trabajo de calidad inferior que mostr poco esfuerzo, y no particip mucho en actividades en clase.
5 Reprobatorio. Su trabajo fue consistentemente de calidad pobre y/o no entreg sus tareas.
Useful sources about language learning levels to base your goals, objectives and assessment techniques are:
Niveles del Marco Comn Europeo de Referencia.doc Niveles de SEP.pdf Conocimiento de Idiomas
Dont forget the parts of our suggested syllabus:

Course Information
Teacher Information General Objectives (goals) Specific Objectives

Course Content (Structures, Vocabulary, Notions, Pronunciation, Functions, Cultural Aspects, Situations, Skills, Topics) Teaching Strategies Learning Strategies Assessment
Bibliography and References:

Jameson, J. (1998). Three principles for success: English language learners in mainstream content classes (From Theory to Practice Issue No. 6). Tampa, FL: Center for Applied Linguistics, Region XIV Comprehensive Center. Nunan, David. (1999) Second Language Teaching and Learning, Heinle and Heinle. Oxford, R.L. (1990), Language Learning Strategies, Newbury House.

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Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students

Nonverbal Assessment Strategies

Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students

Nonverbal Assessment Strategies

Oral Performances Or Presentations

Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students

Oral and Written Products Content area logs

Reading response logs

Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students

Oral and Written Products Writing assignment

Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students

Oral and Written Products

"Audio and video cassettes"

Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students

The following types of materials can be included in a portfolio:

Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students

Audio- and videotaped recordings of readings or oral presentations.

Conference or interview notes and anecdotal records.

Tests and quizzes.

A suggested grading scale for mexican students is:

Dont forget the parts of our suggested syllabus:

Teacher Information General Objectives (goals) Specific Objectives

Bibliography and References:

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