unit 1 activity 4

In the continuous learning process it is very important to take into consideration that assessment and evaluation has some differences but at the same time can´t get separated in practice, because one is dependent of the other.

Trussell stated; assessment is the documentation of the learning process and evaluation is the interpretation of the collected data to make appropriate professional judgments.

Learning is compound by many aspects; knowledge, understanding, skills, strategies, attitudes and values. These aspects are documented, analyzed and interpreted in order to achieve certain objectives as mastering the four skills (writing, reading, speaking and listening).

Another important aspect is the difference between testing teaching and evaluation, and as Baxter distinguished, the first term is referred to testing student´s knowledge or measuring the performance and also we set skills into numbers as a way of evaluate but this method is only helpful to know how many times the learner answered correctly a question and the comprehension is not proved, on the other hand, teaching involves an exposure to the language using the four skills and evaluation sees the testing as a tool to assessing someone´s performance.

The student´s needs are a priority and through monitoring,surveying, grading, marking and testing the teacher has the opportunity to give a better education.

Aldair



I really enjoy the lecture cause this information it's very crucial to our major I saw that an assessment it's the gathering of information and documents of the learners and not just giving them a number as in evaluation. this should be taken in consideration as teachers because in this way we can be aware of or students effort, continiuos work and the knowledge they achieve with every subject that we gave to them. As for teaching and testisng I saw a really good technique in the lecture that was to apply an exam at the beginning of the course and then teach after that we apply another test and we should compare the results that very good because after all the test it's one of the teacher's tools to see how our students are doing in class. We can say that they are applied in classroom situation when we know how and what we want to assess and knowing that we can have a certain type of test that it's adapted to our needs in the class an we can teach in the best way we can to our students.

Levid