Formative Assessment in EFL Blended Instruction

April 4, 2015

Presenter: Olga Morozan,

MA, PhD candidate,

Access Microscholarship Program Moldova

Coordinator, American Councils Moldova

When teachers assess student learning and performance acquired due to online assignments, it concentrates his /her main goal on purely formative purposes, since often there is no final mark on the paper and no summative grade in the grade book.

Rather, assessment serves as practice for students, just like a meaningful homework assignment does.

This formative assessment – the most valuable one -supports learning through an immediate online peers or teachers’ feedback, or even better a self- reflection posted as text-/media-based blog comment.

EVALUATION vs ASSESSMENT?

FORMATIVE & SUMMATIVE

TASK 1.FORMATIVE VERSUS SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Write your reflections on the following:a. define a formative assessment, and reasons of using it in instruction ( maximum 2 phrases);b. state the difference between formative and summative assessment ( maximum 2 phrases);c. identify 3 strategies of formative assessment you consider most effective for your students, justifying your choice ( maximum 32 phrases).

TASK 2: ONLINE TOOLS FOR EFL ASSESSMENT

Select 2 online tools you could use to ensure the formative

assessment strategies presented in Task 1.

MENTIMETER.COM

RUBRICS :

• a means of communicating expectations for an

assignment, providing focused feedback on works

in progress, and grading final products ;

• a document that articulates the expectations for

an assignment by listing the criteria, or what counts,

and describing levels of quality from excellent to

poor.

• Rubrics can teach as well as evaluate.

When used as part of a formative, student-centered

approach to assessment, rubrics have the potential to

help students develop understanding and skill, as well

as make dependable judgments about the quality of

their own work.

Students should be able to use rubrics in many of the

same ways that teachers use them—to clarify the

standards for a quality performance, and to guide

ongoing feedback about progress toward those

standards.

DEVELOPING A RUBRIC

1 Task Description

2Scale

3 Dimension

4Description of the Dimension

CREATING RUBRICS USING RUBISTAR

TASK 4: LET'S CREATE AN ONLINE RUBRIC TO ASSESS A STUDENT PROJECT.

From the previous Assignments you posted during the whole period of Access teacher training (your project idea, a blog and a lesson plan) choose one you like most, and create a rubric to assess the accuracy and completeness of the accomplished task.

Post the created rubric as a comment to this page