Course: Assessing Learning
Description
One of the most challenging tasks for language instructors is finding effective ways to determine what and how much their students are learning. Instructors need to think carefully about their instructional goals and what kinds of assessments support these goals. This session will equip you with effective assessment tools so you can modify and focus instruction on what students need to know and be able to do in the target language in order to achieve communicative competence.
Topics Addressed
How you this course will help you in your classroom
One of the most challenging tasks for language instructors is finding effective ways to determine what and how much their students are learning. Instructors need to think carefully about their instructional goals and what kinds of assessments support these goals. This session will equip you with effective assessment tools so you can modify and focus instruction on what students need to know and be able to do in the target language in order to achieve communicative competence.
Topics Addressed
- Review Modes of Communication
- Formative and Summative Assessment
- Re-examine end goals and re-assess what is worthy
- Create balanced assessments so all three modes of communication are leveraged
How you this course will help you in your classroom
- Learn different approaches to measure student learning more holistically
- Learn how to create assessments to measure all focus skills within the 3 modes of communication
- Learn how to incorporate formative assessment to inform instruction
- Learn how to use summative assessment to evaluate students and teacher effectiveness