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Why Do We Assess?: Consider The Reasons For Assessment in This Presentation. Do They Reflect Your Own Reasons?

The document discusses the various reasons why teachers assess students, including to provide feedback on student progress and achievement, determine student abilities and needs, help teachers identify how to best help students, and evaluate teaching effectiveness. It prompts the reader to reflect on whether their own assessment practices align with these reasons by asking a series of questions.

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Why Do We Assess?: Consider The Reasons For Assessment in This Presentation. Do They Reflect Your Own Reasons?

The document discusses the various reasons why teachers assess students, including to provide feedback on student progress and achievement, determine student abilities and needs, help teachers identify how to best help students, and evaluate teaching effectiveness. It prompts the reader to reflect on whether their own assessment practices align with these reasons by asking a series of questions.

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Why do we assess?

Consider the
reasons for Reflect on the questions
in the speech bubbles.
assessment in this Make notes in your
journal for points you
presentation. Do want to remember.
they reflect your
own reasons?
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Why do we assess?
To provide feedback
to learners on their Do my students just get
a simple grade or is it
progress clear where they have
i.e. what they have done well and what
they need to improve?
done well and what
they need to improve
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Why do we assess?
To provide feedback
to learners on their Do I use assessment to
achievement show students how far
they’ve come, or do
i.e. how much they they only see
have learned at a assessment as a report
of how far they have to
particular point in the go?
course
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Why do we assess?
To get information
about learners’ ability If the aim of assessment
to understand or use is to check target
language competence,
target language do I manage to focus
structures or my assessment only on
the target language?
vocabulary

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Why do we assess?
To help teachers know
how to help their Do I look at assessment
as a tool to help me
learners. determine new ways to
help my students?

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Why do we assess?
To find out whether
learners like or dislike Do I observe my
students or collect
specific classroom information about their
activities preferences in terms of
classroom activities?

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Why do we assess?
For diagnostic
purposes: to use Do I adjust my lesson
plans and aims based
information about on what I learn about
learners’ strengths and the students’ strengths
and weaknesses?
weaknesses to provide
information which can
feed into planning.
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Why do we assess?
To let learners know
what standards they Do my students know
what is expected of
need to reach. them?

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Why do we assess?
To provide records for
schools Are my assessment
records clear, available
and useful for my
school?

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Why do we assess?
To provide
information to parents Do I provide helpful
information for
parents? Do they know
which areas their
children are doing well
or need to improve?

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Why do we assess?
To get feedback on
Do I always assume
your teaching learners are the cause of
their own difficulties or
do I also use assessment
to continually evaluate
my teaching?

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