Formative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Formative assessment is process oriented and includes Portfolio work and teacher incentive.

EPS Portfolio EPS Portfolio is adapted from European Language Portfolio (ELP) and it is comprised of Language Passport, Biography, Online Component and Presentation. By giving credit to students’ effort to learn English, EPS portfolio work aims to accomplish the following key objectives:

 Encouraging and motivating learners to reflect on and assess their own learning and set their personal learning goals (i.e. encouraging life-long learning and the development of study skills)  Encouraging learners to work collaboratively  Increasing their exposure to English outside class  Developing their research skills  Developing their presentation skills  Monitoring and providing on-going and regular feedback on the learners’ achievement of the learning outcomes

The Language Passport

This is a summary of a learner’s language learning experiences and his/her language learning history, including the languages s/he has grown up with. We guide our students to complete and update this section and, to share it with his/her teachers at EPS and FL throughout their language learning experiences at our university.

Language Biography

This part includes the simplified versions of the learning outcomes accompanied by some corresponding or representative paper-based tasks as well as suggestions on how to become a more effective learner. Learners are expected to do these tasks in class, at home or at the Self-Study Centre. Based on their perceived performance, they are expected to reflect on their accomplishment of the learning outcomes and plan their studies accordingly. The students’ progress through the Portfolio work is also monitored by us (their teachers) and we also provide some feedback on the learners’ accomplishment of the tasks by using the error correction symbols and comment boxes.

We check and give our students regular feedback on their biography tasks but the biography is officially graded once during the course depending on the duration of the course. Students are expected to meet assigned deadline and if task(s) are completed late, students are graded accordingly with reference to the criteria.

Please, encourage the students to:  update their work regularly, e.g., twice a week.  do all tasks within a week once they have been assigned. (If not, the tasks will