Testing And Evaluation

I’m Tatiana Milena Cuello Diaz. I’m married with Albert and i have two daughters, I’m from La Guajira, but i live in Medellin, My interests are finish my career and teach many people, other interest is to be able shared as much time as possible with my daughters, their names are Natalia and Laura.

Natalia is 9 years old and Laura 2 years. Natalia is very intelligent and lovely. She likes English. She likes to sing too. Laura is very pretty and restless. He likes watching video. My husband is Albert. He Works in Medellin/Antioquia. He is Mining Engineer. He is 28 years old, he is very temperament and sincere.

My hobbies are Listening to music, going to shopping center, i drive with my motorcycle, i like learn English , i don´t have many interesting activities , because i am housewife, i just like to be with my family we do most of our activities together, we love to go river and the park.

My favorite food is chicken rice; I love to eat fruits and vegetables. I don’t like sweets. English, speaking and also improvise chat with people from other countries for increase my vocabulary.

Basic concepts: Assessment, testing and evaluation.

Teaching and testing

Testing is an important stage to test what is taught, the effect of testing on teaching and learning is called backwash, and can be harmful or beneficial. It could be beneficial when testing shows the weakness of training during the year, and so improving the teaching and learning process and raise the level on students. It could be harmful when testing is different from the way they’ve been learning a skill.

Inaccurate test

There are two main sources of inaccuracy, the first of these concerns test content and test techniques. If we want to know how well someone can write, there is absolutely no way we can get a really accurate measure of their ability by means of a multiple choice test.

Teaching is the primary activity and it’ been admitted that so much testing provide inaccurate information. On the other hand exists formative and summative assessment. Assessment is formative when teachers to check on the progress of theirs students, to see how far they’ve mastered what they should have learnt, and then use this information to modify their future teaching plans. It also can be the basis to give feedback to the students. Summative assessment is used at end of the term, semester or year to measure what has achieve both as a group or individual.

Evaluation

Evaluation is a process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information about teaching learning in order to make informed decision that enhance students achievement and the success of educational programs.

- Evaluation has four basic components:

- Make decision: modify program or materials

- Articulate purpose for evaluation: to decide whether to continue using new materials

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