Buxoro davlat universiteti xorijiy tillar fakulteti "tasdiqlayman"

Formative assessment
. The alternative type of testing is referred to as ongoing or 
formative assessment and as well as providing a more positive experience for 
learners it can also be invaluable for us as teachers, to see if our lesson aims have 
been fulfilled and our overall objectives have been met. It can also help us to 
assess student strengths and weaknesses and give us a strong indication as to which 
type of activities students like and dislike. 
Examples
Here is an example of ongoing assessment, which I carried out with a group of 8-9 
year old Portuguese learners in their second year of learning English. We were 
using a coursebook and at the end of each module students were required to 
complete an evaluation sheet that was divided into 4 parts. 
Part 1 - A series of 5 or 6 tasks to demonstrate the skills and language they had just 
learnt. 
These tasks were generally completed in pairs or small groups and would vary in 
type; matching exercises, sentence ordering, gap-fills, songs, miming actions, 
reading comprehension, labelling diagrams, describing pictures, performing mini 
dialogues etc. The important thing was not to repeat the same task-type that the 
students had completed in the module so that they were demonstrating their 
understanding of the language, not from memory alone, but by their ability to 
manipulate it in a different way. After completing the task students coloured in one 
of three related icons to demonstrate how well they had performed. 
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One icon = quite well 
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Two icons = well 
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Three icons = very well 

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Part 2 - A list of statements referring to students’ general behaviour and overall 
class participation. These statements were presented in a chart that students 
coloured in according to how well they rated their own performance. For example: