Type of assessment Progress or achievement
What skills it will test
The percentage weighting (from the overall 100 percent for the semester)
Task description (very briefly, just an idea would be fine here)
Time allocated for students Individual or group
Assessment criteria
☺ (5 min) Invite groups to exchange their proformas. (Alternatively, proformas can be
displayed on the board or a wall for a mingling activity.)
Summary There are many different assessment methods and types. However, it does not mean that teachers can use them all without thorough consideration. Types of assessment should have a certain purpose, should test certain skills, and should have certain assessment criteria. It is also important to think what percentage within the overall structure of assessment each type of assessment will have to maintain the balance between the types and to consider students’ and teachers’ workload.
ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF ASSESSMENT Activity 2, Handout 1 With your partner, analyse the task below and think how you would mark it (scale 0 -10). Consider the following questions: ~ What will the marking criteria be? ~ Are all the criteria equally important? ~ How it is possible to show that one criterion is more important than another (for example, content and layout)? Task for students 1. You are required to work in small groups of no more than 4 people. The task for you is to write a newspaper article about a local zoo. You will have to:
1. think about the specific things in the zoo you would like to concentrate on;
2. visit the zoo and collect all the necessary information;
3. analyse the information you have collected and think how you can use it to write an article;
4. think about the article structure;
5. write the article.
2. You are also required to write a brief personal reflection (150 words maximum) about how
you worked together and your individual contribution to the project.
Submit both papers (an article and a report) in 4 weeks time.
