Students will be actively engaged to the learning process and course materials. If students actively engage to their study, they will learn more, remember, enjoy it, and appreciate more what they have learned rather than students who passively receive what teacher has taught.
To increase students’ interests, empower students to be more responsible to their own learning and more reflective in their study.
Encourage students to be more speak up what is on their mind. Teacher should give build-up feedbacks on students’ writings for their the betterment.
INTERVIEWS
Interview is a kind of conference, interaction between teacher and student but it is more specific.
A teacher will interview students for assessment purpose so it is not about students conducting interview of other to gain information.
The goals of the interview are for:
Assess the student’s oral production
Ascertain a student’s needs before designing a course or curriculum
Seek to discover a student’s learning styles and preferences
Ask a student to assess his or her own performance, and
Requests an evaluation of a course
ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF ASSESSMENT Activity 1 Project work as one of the vehicles for assessing students’ performance Objective: to give participants an opportunity to analyse a piece of project work done by students
Time: 15 min
Materials: 4 booklets, 4 posters, board, markers, flipchart paper
Preparation: write the questions from the first bullet point on the board
►Procedure:
☺☺☺ (5-7 min) Put participants in 4 groups. Explain that students of one university were
given an assessed task to produce booklets and posters. Distribute one booklet and one poster to each group. Ask groups to look through the materials and answer the following questions (written on the board):
~ What do you think the task of the project was? ~ How many students do you think worked on the task? ~ What do you think the steps in students’ work were? ~ How much time do you think the project took? ☺ (7-8 min) Invite groups to share the results of their discussion.
Summarise the activity by saying that project work can be quite an effective way of learning, teaching and assessment and in answering the questions above participants have thought about certain things that should be taken into consideration when setting such tasks.
