MARIANO GALVEZ UNIVERSITY P.E.M EN INGLÉS
PORTFOLIO Evaluation Techniques Berta Lucia Gómez Urzúa
2011
INDEX 1. Introduction 2. Class logs 3. Documents of Evaluation and Assessment 4. Documents about test building 5. Documents about Test Types 6. Conclusions of the course 7. Annexes: a. Weekly planning b. Pre-chart c. Blue print d. Final evaluation
CLASS LOGS
CLASS LOG Evaluatión vrs. Assessment July 23th 2011 Today’s class was very interesting. We learnt a new face of evaluation and how is it different from an assessment. An evaluation is more formal or planned than an assessment. An assessment can be done at any time of the teaching process.
Lucia Gómez
CLASS LOG Group presentations about Formal and Informal Assessment. July 30th 2011
Today’s class was very dynamic. We were organized in groups to present activities for Formal and Informal assessment. Every group was very different and all of them gave us ideas to improve and also to apply in our classes. Something interesting were the topics, each group presented their ideas with much innovated topics. I believed it would be good if every group would give an explanation or would clarify which activities were Formal and which were Informal, so we can learn more clearly.
Lucia Gómez Urzúa
CLASS LOG
Blue print August 06th 2011 Today麓s class, honestly, was kind of confusing. Today we learnt about the whole deal about test building. I believe that we are used to make test in a very automatic way, without thinking about all the things that we must have to include or take into account. The blue print is a chart that helps us evaluate to what level of skills we got with our students with each topic. And according to it, we must include the same percentage of items in the test. We use formulas to know the exact time and number that a test must have.
Lucia G贸mez
CLASS LOG
Blue print and the previous chart August 20th 2011
In order to create a blue print, we must measure the time that we spent on each topic of the unit, for this, is necessary to make a pre-chart. This chart will give us the information that we need to know how many items of each topic we should include in the test. Another interesting fact about this is that it also helps us to measure or evaluate the way we are teaching, and in what way are we teaching the topics. For example, we tent to make a lot of activities for our students to remember, but we do not make them analyze or apply.
Lucia G贸mez
CLASS LOG
Test building September 9th 2011
Today’s class was very interesting. It was about how to make a test. Surprise it takes more than we thought, it requires time and patient in order to create a test that will be useful for our students. The steps to fallow are quite simple, but we have to be aware of many things in the moment of building one. The first thing is to make a list of all the content I taught during my curse. Then I have to think about the time I spend on each topic, so I can be sure of what content is going to be more important. Now, something interesting is that in this process, we can also evaluate the way we have been teaching. This is because the next step is to think about to what level of the taxonomy we got with each topic. According to this, we will decide what kind of series we are going to make, if it is going to be only memory, applying or creating. After all this is done, we have to think of the percentage that each series is going to have and also each item. It is very important to make sure that each series is going to have the adequate number of items and that each is going to be well scored. Finally, we make the number to see if everything is fine with the number of items and the score of our test. This class taught me that making a test is really more difficult and interesting than I thought.
Lucia Gómez Urzúa
CLASS LOG
Test Types October 22nd 2011
There are many test types when we talk about the form they are building and the skill they are measuring. In order to make a good test, we can take into account the next types of tests that are used in every level of skill and also in any grade or topic.
Multiple choice Assessment performance True of false Essay questions Matching Short answers
Something important is to make sure that before using any of the types, we must have made exercise or practices in class, so students won’t get confused with the instructions of the way the items are building. Each group presented very interesting things about each type, one of the most interesting war essay questions, because even it seems easier for the student, it is very complicated for the teacher. My group and I talked about assessment performances, and I really liked it because I think is non stressful form to evaluate and the only thing that we need are the rubrics in order to objective in the score the give to each student.
Lucia Gómez
Curse Conclusions
Evaluation techniques curse can be described as a very simple, but useful curse. It gave us tools that we can put in practice from the moment of learning and also the advantages are more for the teacher than for the students in deed. The difference of assessment and evaluation is basically the time and how formal it turns during the process of teaching. We can, and must assess our students in every moment of teaching, because we can measure if the objectives are being reached or not. With a good assessment we can make a decision of turning the way we are teaching certain topic, in order to make it better for our students. Test building has to be rely on how did we teach the topic, how much time did we spend in the topic and also the kind of activities that we use to practice the topic. Test types are a very good form to vary the way we evaluate our students, using the different techniques of forms, we can guarantee that the test that we make are going to be valid based on the way we taught our classes.