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Assessment Literacy – FREE Mini-Course

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What Does Assessment Literacy Mean? Assessment literacy means the teachers’ understanding of the fundamental assessment concepts and procedures that can influence their educational decisions. Providing teachers with the skills, knowledge, and expertise to be assessment literate is very important for achieving excellence in education.   Four Reasons For...
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Reasons For Classroom Assessment & Decisions Made By This Assessment

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Classroom assessment is the act of collecting information about students, curricula, and methodology with the aim of making decisions concerning students’ needs and teacher’s objectives. Classroom Assessment Should Help the Teachers in: Determining students’ strengths and weaknesses. Determining the learning styles of the students. Learning about students’ interests...
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Basic Information & Issues Related To Language Assessment

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Assessment procedures should be used to achieve three main purposes: Providing end-of-term grading or certification (summative evaluation) Providing information on the learner’s strengths and weaknesses (formative evaluation) Helping the teacher and/or learner to plan further work (integrative evaluation) When assessing learning outcomes, the teacher should be concerned with...
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