CHAPTER SIX

The Purpose and Processes of Evaluation

When I listen the word evaluation the first thing that comes to my mind is the word grades or scores that we give to our students. In fact, a major concern of teaching English language for teachers has been assessing and evaluating students' progress during their courses of study as well as their classroom achievements at the end of it.

Within the study of this chapter we checked the definition of evaluation it is used to generate grades and to promote learning. However, today faculty, almost entirely and exclusively, evaluate student work. In the learner-centered teaching still evaluate and grade student work, but evaluation activities that involve students are included in the process in that way students learn how to assess their own work and participate in the evaluation of work done by their peers which let learners develop skills that independent, self-regulating learners need.

Let’s point out another important aspect from this chapter and it is Elements of Evaluation Experiences That Promote Learning. First of all, as future teachers we need to know that motivation drives students to get grades it means that if a student feel motivated to learn the language they are going to be more interested to improve their grades. Second of all, we should work to maximize the encounters with content that occur as a consequence of evaluation activities that they result in rich, transformative learning experiences.

As a conclusion, teachers have the big responsibility to find ways to evaluate students that let them know the students’ strengths or weakness in order to help them in their learning process.

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