Formative+Assessment

YOUR ANSWERS:
 * Task:** Our formative assessment framework




 * For this tasks you will **
 * **Answer a questionnaire on formative assessment**
 * **Develop a Formative assessment framework collaboratively**


 * INTRODUCTION**


 * The challenges we face as teachers when we assess students **

While it is true that teachers understand more and more how valuable it is that we pay attention to formative assessment, there are still many teachers who design very engaging tasks and projects but then **fail in integrating these tasks in summative assessment**. There is some evidence that the relationship between formative and summative assessment is not well understood by a number of teachers (Taras, 2011). Professor Taras signals that some teachers who believe in formative assessment and practice what they preach overload themselves by duplicating assessment practices. What she sees in the lecturers she interviewed might be true in other contexts.

This might explain why we often report poor results to some innovative practices. Although we know that what we assess will determine what and how students will learn, we tend to be conservative when choosing what will be assessed and discard innovations from assessment programmes..

Furthermore, it is not uncommon that **teachers do not consider students as active agents in formative assessment** in it through peer and self evaluation. If we did that more often, the student's **engagement** will probably increase.

Finally, we should give careful thought to the role error plays in our assessment programmes. If we penalise error, then students will be unwilling to make mistakes and show the difficulties they are facing in the process of learning. That would make spotting them more difficult to us and would compromise the results of any peer or self evaluating processes. However, if we find ways to make errors welcome, we will be able to provide learners with strategies to solve them in a faster and more effective way and increase their **awareness** as language learners.

Formative assessment, in an effective programme, would lead to students success in summative assessment. This is an example of a true assessment programme that has been applied this school year. It is based on Students' production and reflection in the four skills and in integrated skills and reflection, that might prove inspirational.

media type="custom" key="22889464"


 * 1. WARM UP: Answer the questionnaire about assessment tools below,**
 * It is important that you consider when you answer it which skills are you assessing when you use them :**

media type="custom" key="21826726"


 * 2. collaborative creation of a Our Formative Assessment Framework**