Evaluation and Assessment week.

At the end of every day we have to take a look at the result of our actions nevertheless we should reflect about the way we got them.

Evaluation is a concept widely defined and discussed in education; new trends in language learning have introduced the concept “assessment”, which has a deeper meaning in the new class. The generational gap provoked mainly by technological advances had been in constant growing, now through the use of tools as blogs, rubrics, web quest, etc teachers can understand better to their students, and reduce the existing gap.

Instruments like rubrics not just permit to the teacher to be objective and clear at the moment of evaluate students’ progress (cognitive abilities), they also could permit to the teachers to be aware about the whole process. It means to consider the material, equipment, procedures, goals, resources, building rubrics for each one of the components. In another words not just what the students were able to memorize or repeat as traditional methods used to measure.

The appreciation of all the elements in the learning process is an important contribution of the new models of assessment.

We have to promote in our learning environments the understanding, construction and application of these tools. Thanks Donna and University of Oregon, you are helping us to have a better performance as teachers and of course to improve education in Ecuador and other countries of the world.

That’s all for this week folks!

Boris