Assessments to Measure Learning Progress

Assessment is an indispensable part of the teaching-learning process.

               This is where the teacher can measure how much the students have learned and whether or not his teaching style is effective. Today, I conducted a pen and paper assessment to my classes. They had to give me 15 sentences employing the correct forms of Simple Future Tense for the first part. For the second part, they have to look for the adjectives from the given text in their textbooks and write it on a separate sheet of paper.

               I immediately checked their works the night of the same day and so far, got good results for the first topic: Simple Future Tense. For the Adjectives quiz however, one group had difficulty identifying adjectives from their given texts.

               On our next meeting, I would return their papers back and would give feedback about the result.

               Some of them also have challenges with adding an object to the transitive verbs that they used. Others have challenges with using the correct form of verbs considering the singularity of the subject. Also, some have issues with spelling some words.

               As a future educator, I need to learn how to provide feedback that doesn’t demoralize the students but rather in a way that makes them want to improve more on their English craft. And that’s what I will do in our next meeting.