This is the first of the presentations I did at the Teacher's Spring workshop, March 2013

1. Assessment issues
What to measure
How to measure it

2. What do we want to know?
about our students
• Assessment – What can our students do?
What have they learned?
about our teaching
• Evaluation – How successful was our
class? How can we make it better?

3. assessment evaluation
what did my students learn how was my teaching?
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4. Assessment
What do we want to know about our
students?
What do we want to know about our
students?
• How good is their English? What’s their
level? (Has it increased?)
• How much have they learned?
• How much effort did they make?

5. How good is your English?
(How good is your Japanese?)
What does TOEIC 300 mean?
What does TOEIC 300 mean?
What does TOEIC 300 mean?

6. How much have my students
learned in my class?
or
or
or
• Did my students learn what I
wanted to teach them?
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7. How much effort did my students
make?
• If they work hard will their grade go up?
• Do my students know what they have to do
to get a high (or low) grade?
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8. • What does a grade of ‘A’ or ‘B’ or ‘C’
mean?
• Does it mean the same in every class?
• Does it reflect underlying
ability, or
effort, or achievement during the
period of the class?
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9. What actually
happened in
my class.
Syllabus:
Assessment:
what I
what did my
planned to
students
teach.
(... and what I
learn?
plan to
assess)
Evaluation:
how did we
do?
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10. Objectives and validity
• objectives - what am I going to assess
(measure, test, observe)?
• validity
- are my objectives reasonable?
- are they achievable?
- did I really teach the things I’m going to
assess?
- does my method of measurement really
measure my objectives?
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11. Questions
• How do you assess your students?
• How do you know what they have
achieved?
• How do you you evaluate and improve
your classes?
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