In March I partnered up with BrELT to plan and deliver Designing Private Courses. As I prepared the course and decided what to include, I reviewed and studied a lot about assessment, something that I started studying more in depth around 2013, when I did the Delta module 1 test. It was also in March that we were hit hard by Covid-19.
In April, after Designing, I knew I had to deliver a course about assessment and I first talked about that on my Instagram Stories. To my surprise, many teachers seemed interested and that only confirmed what I’d been feeling for a while: teachers need to know not only if what they’re doing is right, but also learn how to use assessment as a powerful tool, not only as bureaucracy.
In these difficult times, students tend to give up on activities that are not being fruitful, and if you use assessment as a weapon, it can be key to motivating and boosting a sense of progress in our students and this is why it cannot be neglected.
In this 12-hour course, you’ll find a strong theoretical foundation and practical elements of different types of assessment, including examples of test. We’ll cover:
- Assessment concepts (backwash, practicality, reliability, validity)
- Planning evaluation
- Evaluating with tests
- Evaluating without tests
- Assessing and testing grammar
- Assessing and testing vocabulary
- Assessing and testing reading listening
- Assessing and testing reading
- Assessing and testing speaking
- Assessing and testing writing
- Online tools
- Types of tests
Join me on June 14, 21 and 28 from 14.00 to 18:15 if you want to look at how you assess your students in a different, principled way and, as a result, boost their sense of progress. It is time to make our learners even more motivated to keep studying English!
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