This document discusses assessment and evaluation in language teaching. It defines assessment as a formative, ongoing process to gather information on student learning, while evaluation is a summative process to determine what students have learned at the end of a course. The document also outlines key differences between assessment and evaluation, including their timing, focus, relationship to students, and findings. It emphasizes using assessment and evaluation to improve teaching and learning through defining learning outcomes, continual progress assessments, and rigorous evaluations of outcome achievements.

1. TESTING, EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT IN ELT

2. Testing, Evaluation and Assessment By Fitzroy Kennedy. M.A. School of Education. University of Alabama

3. What is teaching? *Write down the definition of “teaching” *Pair up with someone to come up with a definition *Share your definitions with the group.

5. The general purpose of teaching is to help students to learn… How can you know that the students in your class really learned? by which means?

6. When you are checking student’s knowledge is… Evaluation Assessment

7. What is the difference between Assessment and Evaluation?

8. Differences between assessment and evaluation Timing Assessment Formative. It is an ongoing process of gathering information on the extent of learning. Evaluation Summative. It sums up attainment at the end of the course with a grade.

9. Focus of measurement Assessment Process-oriented. How learning is going Evaluation Product-oriented. What has been learned

10. Administrator / recipient relationship Assessment Reflective. Internally defined (criteria / goals) Evaluation Prescriptive. Externally imposed standards

11. Findings. The use of such findings Assessment Diagnostic. Identify areas of improvement Evaluation Judgmental. Arrive at an overall grade / score

12. Ongoing modifiability of criteria Assessment Flexible. Adjust as problems are clarified Evaluation Fixed. To reward success, punish failure

13. Standards of measurement Assessment Absolute. Tries to reach the ideal outcomes. Evaluation Comparative. Divide better from worse

14. Relation between A / E Assessment Cooperative. Learn from each other Evaluation Competitive. To try to do better than the others

15. Dimension of difference Assessment Evaluation Timing Formative Summative Focus of measurement Process-oriented Product-oriented Relationship between administrator and recipient Reflective Prescriptive Finding. The use of such findings Diagnostic Judgmental Ongoing modifiability of criteria Flexible Fixed Standards of measurement Absolute Comparative Relationship between objects of A / E Cooperative Competitive

16. So that... Assessment for formative purposes is designed to stimulate growth, change and improvement in teaching through reflective practice. Evaluation is used for summative purposes to give an overview of a particular instructor's teaching in a particular course and setting Assessment vs Evaluation

21. Example of Assessment

22. Content of the ELP

29. The Language Passport should have…

30. Evaluation Testing students Achievement test

38. Decide wisely how and when to... Evaluate Assess

39. Thanks for your attention! Fitzroy Kennedy. M.A. School of Education University of Alabama [email_address]