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A lternative assessment

A lternative assessment. Proje c t work. A lternative assessment. The primary goal of alternative assessment is “to gather evidence about how students are approaching, processing, and completing ‘real-life’ tasks in a particular domain’’

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A lternative assessment

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  1. Alternativeassessment Project work

  2. Alternativeassessment • The primary goal of alternative assessment is “to gather evidence about how students are approaching, processing, and completing ‘real-life’ tasks in a particular domain’’ (Garcia & Pearson as cited in Huerta-Macias,2002, p.339)

  3. Characteristics of Alternative Assessment Integrate assessment and learning activities. Indicate and highlight successful performance andpositive traits. Consider students' needs, interests, and learningstyles.

  4. Alternative Assessment Options • Self- and peer-assessment • Cooperative test construction • Dialogue journals • Portfolios • Projects

  5. Features of Project Work • Focus on content learning rather than specific language forms • Student-centeredness, as opposed to teacher centeredness • Cooperative rather than competitive • Authentic integration of skills and processing of info from varied sources • Project work culminates in an end product (a stage performance, an oral presentation, etc. (Based on F. Stoller, 2002, p.110 )

  6. Project Stages • Classroomplanning • Agree on a theme • Determine the final project • Real world/carrying out the project • Gathering, analyzing the information • Reviewing and monitoring the work (discussion and feedback sessions) • Returning to the classroom & presenting final product

  7. What about the teacher’s role? • To suggest topics for the project. • To prepare students for the language demands. • To act as a counsellor and consultant

  8. Project Types: • Collection projects • Informational projects • Orientation projects • Social welfare projects Read more about types of projects and their products in in Teaching English as a second or foreign Language Ed. M. Celce-Murcia pp. 339-340

  9. Some project tips: • Staff portrait gallery • Tourist broadsheets • Street interviews on a specific topic • Czech/world cuisine in English • Twinned towns • School Exchange projects • ‘Playing’ the role of a museum guide • Staging a play for junior students, etc.

  10. Suggested reading • Eyring, J. (2001).Experiential and negotiated language learning. In M. Celce-Murcia (Ed.), Teaching English as a second or foreign Language (pp.333-344). Heinle & Heinle. • Fried-Booth, D.L. (1990). Project work. Oxford University Press. • Stoller, F. (2002). Project work: A Means to Promote Language and Content. In J. Richards & W. Renandya (Eds.), Methodology in language teaching: An anthology of current practice (pp. 107-119). Cambridge University Press.

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