Definitions:

Assessment: the gathering of evidence and documentation of the learning. (Trussel-Cullen, 1998)

We can also define assesment as measuring our students’ performance in any one of many different ways, diagnosing the problems and measuring the progress students make.(Harris and McCann,1994)

Evaluation: the process whereby we seek to interpret the assessment data and make appropriate professional judgments based on that data. (Trussel-Cullen, 1998)

Testing: A method of measuring a person’s ability, knowledge, or performance in a given domain. (Brown, 2004)

Although tests do have a place in assessment strategies, test is only one small part of the assessment universe. (Trussel-Cullen,1998)

Teaching: involves imparting Knowledge, understanding, skills, strategies, attitude and values. (Trussel-Cullen, 1998)

Assessment Audit:

Learning Objectives:

Reflection of Unit 1:

This unit we understood what is assessment, evaluation, testing and teaching, we also have learned how to assess in different ways and the two kinds of assessment, the formal and informal, we have learned the differences between assessment, evaluation and testing and how to apply them in the classroom situation. We think that this was useful because we can understand that each one is different and most of the time teachers mix them and they don’t know what they do.

Informal Assessment:

Informal Assessment allows teachers to keep track on the progress of their Ss´ in a certain moments throughout the school year. No matter what areas are they going to observe either linguistic(spelling, reading, speaking, and listening) or non-linguistic(attitude, group work, organization of work, interest etc) teachers must planned, timed and if necessary have a format to write down important observations in order to generate a solution and interfere on time.

Assessment Plan:

Learning Objectives

Chapter 2.- Prepositions

Lesson 1 .- Prepositions of place (Classroom objects)

• Learning Objectives: The students will be able to identify the main prepositions of place and their usage in real life situations.

Lesson 2.- Who?, what?, where?, how many? (School subjects, class schedules)

• Learning Objectives: By a combination of the prepositions and the "wh" questions the student will construct questions in order to get specific answers about location and amount of a person, place or thing.
  

Lesson 3.- The same as
This, that, these, those (Roman numerals)

• Learning Objectives: Students will learn the four demonstrative adjectives (singular and plural) to obtain more detailed information or belonging about an object.
  
  

INFORMAL ASSESSMENT

What would be assessed informally?

We consider that the non-linguistic factors are the first to be evaluated informally because they involve aspects non related to the knowledge acquired by the student but rather they demonstrate their disposal to learn.

Non-linguistic factors that will be assess:

• Attitude/Effort: By their attitude and effort in class the students will demonstrate their interest in the topic.
• Group Work: We will notice how well the student interacts with others.
  Then, we will assess informally the linguistic factors that are less relevant in this unit:
• Reading: We will evaluate students’ intonation while reading as well as their comprehension of the text.
• Speaking: The aspects to assess in speaking are: how accurate the student express himself in oral communication, also if he managed to communicate his message to his audience.

FORMAL ASSESSMENT

What would be assessed formally?

We are going to assess formally the most important things in this unit that are related to the listening and writing skills.

More specifically, we are going to evaluate through a test (done after the unit is completed):

• Spelling: this skill will be evaluated by dictation of a list of words that were seen in the unit.
• Grammar: in the test there will be a section where Ss´ must fill in the blanks by putting the correct grammatical topic mentioned in the instructions.
• Listening comprehension: this ability will be proved by Ss´ by answering a questionnaire with 5 questions about a short story that T´ will play in her recording machine when Ss´ require it in the test.
  

What would be the weight?

Informal Assessment: 20%

• Participation 20%
  

Formal Assessment: 80%

• Grammar 25%
• Spelling 15%
• Listening comprehension and reproduction 25%
• Writing skills 15%