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Volume 5, Issue 1

 
Effective Assessment Practices

Hello InterCom subscribers! Welcome to the first issue in a new series all about assessment. 

This series will explore ideas on how to make assessments useful for both educators and learners, tips for best assessing intercultural communicative competence and pragmatics, and how to write rubrics that communicate clear, descriptive expectations to your learners.

In this first issue of the series, we look at effective assessment tips!

 

 Useful Assessments

Leverage assessments to inform your instruction and help learners succeed!

After reflecting on the concepts and strategies in the video, try one or more of the activities listed below:

  1. Create an assessment mind map: List the objectives, goals, or targetted knowledge for your assessment. Now, try arranging these in a way that makes sense to you on a piece of paper or in a digital space. This practice creates a visual framework for what you are assessing. Include ideas, content, and methods for measuring the objectives that you have outlined. 

  2. Draft a learner survey: To further measure learner satisfaction and needs, try creating a survey for learners pre-test and/or post-test. Pre-test surveys will help you to measure what learners might be struggling with and give you insight if they know what to expect on the assessment. Post-test surveys will provide information about how learners perceived the test and how they felt it measured growth. 

  3. Rewrite an old assessment: Think back to an assessment. What went well and what didn’t? List some of these observations and brainstorm how you might address these. Try working through this test and changing the content, approach, modality, or type of test to see how you can address the issues you may have encountered!

  4. Brainstorm ideas about effective feedback: Pick an assessment, and consider how learners demonstrate if they meet these objectives. How can you provide constructive feedback? Take note of some keywords, concepts, and ideas that might help in addressing learner successes and areas for improvement.  Check out this article for some sentence stems that may help you.

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