My reflection.

 

Greetings guys!

This is my reflection about our Learning assessment course.

During the course I understood that assessment happens every moment and it is a complex process that I as a future teacher have to develop in the communicative competence context.

This process of assessment involves several concepts that help their construction as Summative and Formative assessment. Those are the main types and points in assessment, also these types of assessment have sub-topics like rubrics, portfolios and concept maps which a base of Formative assessment and test, the base of Summative assessment.

Every topic in this course was interesting because I had no idea of what was assessment but by developing each topic now I have a new view of what my teachers had been evaluating and what they must do now.

Another thing that I want to comment is that the most difficult and incomplete experience of this course was and is developing a test. I thought that develop a test was just to take many topics of the program and make exercises base on these (I was laughing about this opinion). Now I know that develop a test is to take into account specifications for each skill (listening, speaking, reading and writing) by specification I mean state the content, types of items, timing and the most important what I want to measure. When my classmate and I were developing our test we started doing the test instead of test specification.

Group work is a concept that we listen all the time, in this course most of the time we were working in group and it was a good experience because everybody collaborate with tasks like create a speaking activity and develop a test. Sometimes work in group is a mess and in my opinion it happens because members of a group do not have a responsibility in charge.

In conclusion this Learning assessment was completely helpful for me, now I know what I must do with my future students how I have to teach and assess them whit these new features.

Thank you teacher and classmate to share this course and experiences with me!

Sumative assessment: Testing

Greetings!
The next video is about Summative Assessment: Testing that keeps a relation with validity, reliability and test specifications. In the content of the video you will find a brief explanation of each concept, the content of those and my conclusion.

I have to say sorry because it was supposed to be an interview about this summative assessment topic, but I could not develop it. This video was a challenge to did it alone also to help my partener Victor to did his video.
As conclusion of this topic and video Reliability, Validity and Test Specifications are three concept that work together in the process of develop a test also because Validity proves the existance of Reliability and vice versa. 

Summative Assessment: Testing.

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In the next concept map you will find information breafly about Summative Assessment testing, information like types of test, differences between types of assessment and also many technical vocavulary in asessment. Enjoy the content of the concept map

I had to look for more information in order to understand more the whole topic. As conclusion every single test measure different thing as progress or the knowledge that a sudent of a second language has, and as you could see in the map all the types of test have a purpose and characteristics to develop a test. I will wait for your comments to make useful the information and this tool.

Formative assessment: Integration (Rubric, Scale and Checklist)

Rubric.
The purpose of develop a rubric is to provide feedback for teaches and students. Rubrics as a tool give students responsability of criteria.
The purpose of this rubric is to immers and assess students in the communicative context by developing an oral presentation about  self-introduccion.
At the end of the activity the student will be able to introduce by himself providing basic information as name, age, country that he or she comes from and nacionality clearly and accurately.

Here is the rubric to develop the oral presentation activity.

The procedure in developing this rubric was to select firstly the categories and put it in order from the more complex to the easiest one. About the content of each category and the value, it was a little bit difficult to define the content of what I wanted students to do and develop, but the most difficult part of the content was the middle because I had problems in determined verbs and characteristics.

At the moment I created a rubric in Rubistar web page was interesting because it gave me more ideas to organize the content of two categories that I made up, and provided me more categories to complete my rubric. Rubistar is an amazing tool, but it needs more categories to make complete and useful rubrics.

Minerva Model Scale.
The purpose to made up a new scale for tecahers' evaluation is because most of the time students do not know the content of the Minerva Model, so insted of apply the questionnaire that the university created I wrote new statements easily to comprehend for students, and in this way teachers could have better results in their evaluations.

Here is the scale of teachers´ ecaluation according with the Modelo Universitario Minerva Chapter 7.

Checklist.
 The next image is the checklist of what must be in my blog.

Questionnaire.

The last point of this post is answere the next questionnaire.

1. How does it work for the teacher, classmates and yourself? This blog works for my teacher as a portfolio where are the major part of my homework to assess, for my classmate it works as source of communication where they can comment about my work and their comments are useful for me to improve if it is necesary, in my opinion it is! For me my blog works as evidence also as a tool, it makes me recognize my improvment in the subject and as a tool let me share topics and my opinions with my classmates and teacher.

2. To what extent does it match in practice what you read? I cannot say anything about my practice because I do not have students, but in my teachers' practice, it does not happen all the time. I have had 2 teachers that are involve to work with communicative competence, and the things that they done were acoording with what I have read.

3. Would you implement it in your own classes? Why? Or why not? Yes, I would like to implement a blog because the purpose is to make and engage students use the second language as it is, and a blog is a perfect example to develop and achieve Communicative Competence approach in them with the tool that it has, also I can show my future students what I have done in my blog with the help of my teacher to apply the communicative competence approach.

Concept maps, Rubrics and Portfolios.

Greetings! I leave you the next video about formative assessment divided in thre parts: concept maps, rubrics and portfolios. In the video you will find explanation of each concept, uses, types, and many characteristics of those as in the concept map that I have done.

 I was more comfortable by filming the video, it was a little bit easy that the oder once and I think is because of the practice that I am taking. In conclusion Concept maps, Rubrics and Portfolios are working together to form the Fommartive assessment, also those are tools that we as students and future teacher need to see our progress in every single activity during and at the end of a course.

Concept maps, Rubrics and Portfolios.

Greetings! In the concept map you will find definitions, types of concept maps, rubrics and portfolios, also characteristics and applications breafly. I tryed to keep it simple in order to mention the relevant information of each topic.

Develop this concept map and read the informations was I think easy because it was organized by sections and I just tryed to collect the relevant and useful information for me in order to understood the concepts. I will wait for your coments to complete this topic in the video.

Formmative and Summative Assessment

Formative and Summative assessment are two types of assessment in the classrrom. In each single assessment exist a goal, Formative assessment's goal is to monitor the students learning process in order to provide feedback and improve students' learning, Summative assessment's goal is to evaluate students' learning at the end of a course in order to give students their results as a grade.
I left you the next video where are the explanations of formative and summative assessment, examples, advantages and disadvantages also the similarities and differences.

In conclusion Formative assessment is happening in every single activity to help student to improve and summative assessment is effective with the help of the Summative assessment to give specific and complete grades.