When teachers assess student learning and performance acquired due to online assignments, it concentrates his /her main goal on purely formative purposes, since often there is no final mark on the paper and no summative grade in the grade book. Rather, assessment serves as practice for students, just like a meaningful homework assignment does. This formative assessment – the most valuable one -supports learning through an immediate online peers or teachers’ feedback, or even better a self- reflection posted as text-/media-based blog comment. Keep trying new digital tools for applying effective assessment strategies and developing multi-tasking rubrics.
Task 1. Formative versus summative assessment
Analyze the digital resources below and write your reflections on the following:
a. define a formative assessment, and reasons of using it in instruction ( maximum 3 phrases);
b. state the difference between formative and summative assessment ( maximum 2 phrases);
c. identify 3 strategies of formative assessment you consider most effective for your students, justifying your choice ( maximum 3 phrases).
Task 2: Online tools for EFL assessment
Digital tools represent innovative and effective ways to express feedback on the accomplished students’ assignment in both face-to-face or virtual classes. Select 4 online tools you could use to ensure the formative assessment strategies you presented in Task 1. Please consider that the digital platforms should be described accordingly:
Share your choices as a comment on our project blog.
Task 3: Using rubrics as an online EFL assessment tool
Rubrics, as a simple scoring tool, can be used to assess almost any type of student work, be it essays, final projects, oral presentations, or theatrical performances. Read the information below and outline in a 50-word paragraph what rubrics are and what they are used for; the types of rubrics; the steps to follow while creating rubrics, and criteria to consider when evaluating a rubric.
Task 4: Let's create an online rubric to assess a student project.
Choose one of the online assignments posted by your students on our blog throughout the EFL Blogging School, choose one you like most (for e.g. , a Narrable or Stupeflix video, a Voicethread or blog E-Portfolio, a poem or an essay posted on your blog), and create a rubric to assess the accuracy and completeness of the accomplished task. Save your rubric in a Google Drive folder and post the link below, as a comment to this blog. Watch the following tutorials and other useful online resources to complete this task: