What is the purpose of assessment result analysis? How am I going to utilise the information of assessment in order support my teaching and learning? An after-test review will enhance the accuracy of the test scores and the validity of decisions made from them. After designing the assessment tasks (MCQ items, selected response and written response assessment), the crucial part is the analysis of assessment items. There must be a connection between what had been taught and what to be assessed. However
Since there has been the institution of teaching language, there has been speculation on how to effectively impart information to the pupil. The focus of this account will emphasis effective English as a Foreign Language, or EFL approaches and lessons. Contemporary study of EFL has broken down effective teaching into a multi skilled approach to teach another language. By applying these skills to in-class activities, much can be learned about effective teaching. By constructing specialized activities
most crucial in academic writing especially at the tertiary level. Students are supposed to argue for their stand point in order to convince the readers. However, most ESL/EFL students struggle with the various difficulties in writing argumentative essays. They are unable to write due to insufficient skills in argumentative writing. Toulmin (1958, as cited in Connor, 1987) views the production of argumentative
One Day" by David Sedaris the author’s claim is that unorthodox teaching methods can be just as effective as or even more efficient than traditional methods. The author's goal is to inspire perseverance when faced with a non-traditional adversity. Today's society does not prepare people to handle things that fall outside of the normal and is often a culture shock for people. One of the author's key points is alternative styles of teaching can encourage the student to work harder to disprove the teacher
me a lot. It is because one of the major assignments in the course is the argumentative essay. Through introducing different essay structures and reminder of the steps to brainstorm the essay,
Introduction The purposes of this essay are to analyze the causes of different situations in the classroom that teachers will face and to provide suitable solutions. In the main body, it shows the distinct causes of students’ misbehavior in the classroom and analyzes the factors of student discipline problems. To handle these problems, some effective teaching strategies of classroom management and some ways of promoting conducive learning environment are required in this essay, and which are also related
Learning Problems Over the decades education has gone through a vast experimentation on various theories and teaching method to find the perfect education system. In the United States of America, ‘The no child left behind’ policy and the ‘Common core’ are all going through varies debates to see the best fit education system. As I am currently teaching in Cooperative School in Majuro, using the United States curriculum, I have witnessed that there is always room for new educational interventions
Vocabulary plays a vital role in learning a language and it is one of the important language components in developing oral and written communication skills. English vocabulary is vast; learning all words in English is next to impossible. Nevertheless, vocabulary instruction is facilitated at the primary and secondary levels. At tertiary level, students who learn English for a specific purpose are given vocabulary instruction specific to their area. For instance, students in an engineering college
evaluate the students’ learning and make the necessary adjustments. Summative assessments are given at the end of a teaching unit or course for the purpose of evaluating mastery. Teachers use a variety of assessment methods as mentioned below in order to assess the level of mastery demonstrated by the student. FORMATIVE SUMMATIVE • Portfolios • Coursework • Research proposal • Extended Essay • Practical work • Class participation • Poster • Project
In teaching a foreign language in general and English in particular, one of challenge that teachers have to face is teaching writing skill because it requires the students’ knowledge about a relationship between meaning and form…Therefore, to teach writing effectively, “giving feedback is an effective way to train students to become better writers because it helps students to correct their own mistakes and be independent ones” (Ken, 2004, p. 98). There are many types of feedback and they can be distributed