Assessment issues in

- project work

- self assessment

ASSESSING LANGUAGE

To begin with, just as with content, we need to be sure which aspect of language we are assessing:

• Subject-specific vocabulary
• Listen/read for meaning
• Present/discuss effectively
• Demonstrate thinking/reasoning in the CLIL language
• Show awareness of grammatical features of the language

2. HOW TO ASSESS LANGUAGE: through a variety of approaches

• CONSTRUCTED
• RESPONSE
• Fill-in
• Short answers
• Performance
• assessment

• PERSONAL
• RESPONSE
• Portfolio
• Essay-writing
• Oral reports

• SELECTED RESPONSE
• True/False
• Matching
• Multiple choice

ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATS

A. RECORDING TO A

GRID

• It requires little language knowledge to stimulate content recall
• It activates/organizes thinking
• Once completed, the grid can be used for a further task, involving pair work (negotiating)

ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATS

B. READING

Visual texts

of all

types

• Matching pictures to vocabulary
• True/false
• Gap-filling from a box
• Decision task: two versions are given and the correct one has to be chosen

ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATS

C. MATCHING

INFORMATION

• With this format, demonstrating comprehension should always involve real decision based on concept understanding. (Ex.: matching sentence halves)
• The focus is on MEANING

ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATS

LABELLING

• The simplest of all the productive formats, it comes in single-word form.
• Very useful at elementary level, or in the introduction-phase of the lesson

ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT FORMATS

OTHER