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      Assessment
      Submitted by Paul Braddock on 13 February, 2013 - 11:51

      Our latest tip looks at several of the important issues surrounding testing and assessment. Listen to Clare and Alister discuss their ideas and opinions about how best to assess learners of English. After watching the video, why not give your opinion in the comments box below, or write a blogpost on the site?

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      bnleez
      Assessment
      Submitted on 15 February, 2013 - 13:25
      How close are the test items of the practice test to those of the actual test? And does it matter? What's a typical time frame between the practice test and the actual test?
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      janaj
      Knowing vs not knowing
      Submitted on 15 February, 2013 - 20:48
      Thank you Paul for this link. I think that assessing students withought letting them explicitely know is a good idea. However, one of my best students failed on important exam. Even though he did not feel nervous, he probably way and his performance was strongly influenced. I think he might need a bit of mock pressure as well. What do you think?
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      abawi
      is assessment good for learning?
      Submitted on 20 February, 2013 - 15:52
      Thanks so much for the video , this discussion enhances the debate about how good is assessment to the learning process ,and i mean the formative assessment, forinstance , we have pupils who perform very well during the learning sessions but they fail when they' re tested, and what matters most is the psychological impact of failures upon the pupils.
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      Gayane Shabunts
      Thanks
      Submitted on 22 February, 2013 - 08:44
      Thanks a lot for this videos. I guess this is quite informative about the nature of assessment. I may refer to this topic n one of my soon-coming posts.
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      idylledu
      Assessment
      Submitted on 26 February, 2013 - 09:16
      That's nice dialogue about assessment.how do we get justice assessment for kids to test real what they have learnt?I have been confused a long time.Because I asked myself:If let me go to take part in china's GaoKao english test.how many grades can I get?I am afraid very low.But all children in china so far have to study for the exams only,because the assessment here 99 percent focus on the scores at exams.
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      nadia nadoush
      Assessment
      Submitted on 20 March, 2013 - 21:45
      I personally find testing unfair and rough speacialy with young and new learners. As far as the target is learning a new language ,so why puting the learners in that situation ?!!!Most of the time,I find myself obliged to do it even though i know my pupils marks will never reflect what they are practising in class .In my school system , pupils must be tested on sheets.The kids hate that . they get panicked and may fail .They get frustrated and may lose the motivation to learn a new language they had before .That's why I don't like testing them,but still I have to do .Cynical situation,isn't it