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This Blog is for students at UDB enrolled in the course "Testing and Evaluation in Foreign Language Teaching"
I was trying hard to understand what was the blog about and there are a lot of comments about testing, evaluation, and grading. However, so far, I have designed many tests to grade and evaluate a wide quantity of students. In the blog, there was a guy who was in favor of grades which show when a student has done his work just to get a grade or has overworked. Many students work just the necessary to get a grade and I think I am one of them "sometimes". However, being from the other side, as a teacher, I like to see the effort students put in their assigments. I like to get the idea that the hmwk they did has helped them to internalize knowlegde. On the other hand, I hate grading students' work because that is too much information to process. I know who are the best ones, I always see the same results in their grades. In consecuence, I preffer to see the best performance a student can do in a class.
ReplyDeleteJulio
I didn’t understand the information of the link blog. For me it was kind of confusing. I think that the information was difficult to understand because the blog has too many comments about the same topic and I could not see a coherent relation between them.
ReplyDeleteOne general appreciation about the comments of the blog is that most of participants consider testing as a negative part of teaching leaning process because of different facts that interfere with it (stress, personal relationships, health problems etc.) The participants of the blog are just worried about a grade A, B, C, D, or F. They don’t see the complete picture of the evaluation process.
For me the evaluation process is not just testing and assigning excellent or failing grades to the students. For the evaluation process is much more complex than that. I mean you as a teacher have to make the most accurate judgment about your students’ learning and assigned grades based on good structured criteria in order to be objective with the students’ results.
Fátima Crespín.
As all of us know grading takes part at the end of a period, semester, etc. But evaluation must take place througth out the whole course. by reading the blog, some things called my attention like the guy who leaves evaluation in the students' hands. Among students the evaluation is more critical but it can get to the point of grading somebody with a low grade just becuase he or she doesn't like you. However, by designing a rubric which can guide to any person is different, it is more fair and practical. Also, projects work very well to evaluate. Students get involved in the process, they have the sense that they are learing something.
ReplyDeleteJulio.
Traditional forms of assessment assign numerical scores to determine letter or number grades but rarely reveal information about how students understand and apply their knowledge. In this way, assessment simply means giving students tests and assigning them grades. Sometimes grading is just a sign of approval or disapproval, and some students could take it very personally producing undesirable consequences, such as reduced motivation to learn, debilitating evaluation anxiety, and decreased ability to use feedback to improve learning.
ReplyDeleteWe typically use assessment as a way to inform students about how well they are doing or how well they did in the courses we teach. But assessment is now being viewed as an integral part of teaching and learning, and not just the culmination of instruction. Assessment should be a dynamic process that continuously yields information about student progress toward the achievement of learning goals and when the information gathered is consistent with learning goals and is used appropriately to inform instruction, it can enhance the student learning. Raquel
I realized that scholars dont like tests. one call me attention beacuse he feels like he is part of an experiment, because he is constantly in evaluation. most of the students feel a big pressure about test. they are concerned about the grades they got, if they will pass, etc. the important thing about test are measure what students know if they are capable. although students do not take it like that.
ReplyDeletesilvia
testing is so important not only for teachers but also for students to disvovered their strenghts and weakness knowledge. the purpose of testing must be not only at the end of each unit or semester, evaluation must be everyday. besides evaluate through test it doesn't mean if the strudent must have a good or bad grade. in my opinion the good thing about evaluate is to realized how interested we are in our learning, what happen with us and in what area must us can work to improve. even by the final results we can have a feedback to improve and do it better the next time. some students worried about their learning and other dont.
ReplyDeletesilvia
I couldn't read any comment from the blog you sent. The page had some problems it might happen because there was too much information. However what I have learned and read from the materials is that we as teachers must grade our students. It is not because we do not know our students if they are good or bad students. it happens because of our evaluation system.
ReplyDeleteGrading our students is kind of difficult for them. When students know that they are being grading, they used to get anxious and it could even happen with the best student of the class. But what would happen if teachers stop grading students?
Ana Maria
Testing is part of evaluation. Teachers decide when to make a test because it depends on the topic and teachers know at what moment it is necessary to do it. Teachers used to test students in a specific time. However, all the time we are evaluating our students. That is really important.
ReplyDeleteWhen we evaluate our students at the same time we are knowing them. In that way teachers know who the best student is in class and the student who has more learning problems.
Ana Maria
Well, I could read some of the comments and most of them talk only about grading, and I agree on a part that says that "grading" is a type of summary that represents a performance in any level. It measures students skills and these are graded.
ReplyDeleteFor me "Testing" is used to find out what a student can do. It measures students abilities or skills in a specific area. And the results are graded.
Evaluation is used to make judgements about the students performance. We evaluate every time when students are in the classroom, in that way can identify if the students are reaching the objectives of the class, if they are improving in some skills.
Magdalena!!!
Thank you all for your comments. This blog is closed now.
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