martes, 15 de enero de 2013

Dealing with EFL Terminology




Assess

To gather data in order to make informed decisions (from “assidere”, meaning “to sit beside”).


Formative assessment

Frequent and ongoing assessment, completed en route to mastery; ongoing assessment could be considered as “checkpoints” on students’ progress and the foundation for feedback given- the most useful assessment teacher can provide for students and for their own teaching decisions.

Summative assessment

Completed after the learning experiences; usually requires students to demonstrate mastery of all the essential understandings, though they can be explored over several different tasks; gravable.


Affective Factors


Motivation

Teacher is devoted to helping student learn

Student cares about learning and wants to improve



Trust
Teacher is encouraging, constructive, sensitive to student's feelings

Class/peer relationships and attitudes support student's learning

Student feels safe to admit difficulties and uncertainties


Task Factors


Knowledge
Teacher understands the key aspects and difficulties of the task


Criteria

Teacher identifies and explains well the qualities sought

Student understands clearly what is needed


Goals

The broad, general purposes behind a program, course or curriculum.


Standards
Teacher sets standards appropriate to student

Through descriptions and examples, the standards are explained

Student understands the standards and accepts them as appropriate



Structural Factors

Connections

Final version of task can benefit from the formative assessment

Work on subsequent tasks can benefit from the formative assessment


Purposes

Formative use of task is not undermined by parallel summative use



Process Factors
Balance

Feedback gives attention to strengths as well as weaknesses

Checklist:

A list of behaviors, attributes, or tasks with which teachers tally students' evidence for mastery.


Feedback

Telling students what they did, no evaluative component, and helping them compare what they did with what they were supposed to do.

Self-assessment
Teacher helps student to develop self-assessment skills.

Student takes increasing responsibility for his/her own learning.


Peer involvement
Teacher encourages collaboration among students to improve work.

Peers learn to be constructive and generous in offering feedback.


Monitoring

Teacher monitors student's work to track both process and progress


Insight
Teacher detects misunderstandings or other obstacles to success

Teacher detects exciting possibilities in student's work


Timing

Feedback is given at times when student is most receptive to it


Selectivity

Feedback addresses mainly the aspects likely to have biggest benefit


Rubric

A smaller-scale continuum of scores in which each score correlates to clear descriptor of performance.

Uptake

This term is sometimes used generally to refer to what a learner notices and/or retains in second language input or instruction. Lyster and Ranta’s (1997) definition refers to a learner’s observable inmediate response to corrective feedback on his/her utterances.


Wisdom

Feedback is convincing, appreciated, and useful to student




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