1. After providing a few lectures, the teacher wants to know if his/her students can critically reflect about a certain topic using the mother tongue. How would the teacher go about accomplishing this? 2. The teacher wants to know if a student can use idioms from the mother tongue in an actual conversation. How would the teacher go about accomplishing this? 3. The teacher wants to observe whether the students can perform actional competencies like greeting, making introductions, saying goodbye, etc. How would the teacher go about accomplishing this? 4. The teacher wants to collect all the learning highlights of the students in one folder as proof that they have learned many things about the Mother Tongue. How would the teacher go about accomplishing this? II. ABSTRACT and APPLY How would you assess students' learning? Is there a most correct method of assessment better than other methods? Assessment in education must reflect reality and have an accurate measure of a student's knowledge, skills, and values (Lewin & Shoemaker, 2011). In relation to this, classroom assessment may be classified into four. These are: 1) Selected-response assessment; f.
2) Essay assessment; 3) Performance assessment; and 4) Personal communication (Stiggins, 1997). Finally, assessment may take in the form of quizzes, exams, performance tasks, learning portfolios, reflection papers, exemplars, self-assessments, diary or journal entries, and photographs or images (Lam, 2018). In groups of four, determine the most suitable assessment method for each of your class objectives in the classroom. Proceed to your assigned groups and follow the instructions below. Your task is to create a language assessment scheme. Encourage every member to share their thoughts. First, list down your class objectives on the leftmost column. Second, write the most appropriate method of assessment vis-a-vis the objectives. Like mentioned above, this may be quizzes, exams, performance tasks, learning portfolios, reflection paper, exemplars, self-assessment, diary/journal entry, or photographs/images. Finally, write a remark on why you think it is the most suitable assessment method. You may use the matrix on the next page. The first objective is already accomplished to serve as a guide. Unit IV - Assessing Student Learning for the Mother Tongue 117
