Foreign Language Teaching Methods: Assessment

To make scoring easier for students and teachers.

To motivate students to use the language.

To add variety in the test.

To punish students who aren't working hard.

True

False

Use examples to show students how to do the task.

Give feedback that is numerical.

Provide many different tasks for students to choose from.

Use longer questions so the teacher is doing most of the talking.

Direct assessment is too subjective for scoring numerically.

Sometimes students are on the borderline between score levels.

The scores need to be considered along with the rubrics used to evaluate the performance.

Longer performances take more time to score and teachers may get tired and score lower.