Language Testing and Assessment: December 2012

Friday 14 December 2012

Picture Dictation

Students' Level: Average to Intermediate

Topic: Listening (Draw Direction)

Procedure:

Teacher introduce about preposition of place and direction.
Teacher then distribute A4 paper to the students and start giving instruction.
Students are required to listen to the teacher's instruction and draw according to the instruction.
Draw a rectangle in the middle of the paper
Draw an arrow to the left side of the rectangle
Draw a smiley face next to the arrow
Above the arrow draw a sunflower
On the right of the sunflower, draw another arrow pointing to the rectangle.
Inside the rectangle, draw another sad face.
Compare your drawing with your friends.

BT10110059 GLORIA J. KUNTONG

3 things that i like about Anderson article.

I like about how Anderson give explicit contrast between Alternative assessment and Traditional assessment. As many of us fall into the traditional assessment and it burdened the students and the learning only compliment the major examination.
the article also point the needs to shift towards alternative assessment from Traditional assessment. personally i like alternative assessment as i feel that traditional assessment only care about how sharp our memorizing skills and this is a disadvantages to most students.
i also like about how rubric scoring should be expose to the students. when i was still in the secondary school, i always wonder how our exam answer is scored. the teacher never explain which part that we do wrong and which part we should improve.