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As a course participant of " University of Oregon-AEI's Building Teaching Skills Through The Interactive Web - Fall 2014" program, I take great pleasure in creating and updating this blog. In the Webskills Homepage, my reflections on what I learned each week and how I intend to implement my learning in my work as a teacher will be the main area of focus. In the India: My Homeland Page, I would like to share with you some anecdotes from my life, stories regarding my students, the schooling system in my country and a few snippets about India. Thank you for visiting. Please, do leave your valuable comments.

Friday, November 07, 2014

Alternative Assessment: A Better Way to Evaluate - Week 5, Post 1

What a great week it is! 

This week we were introduced to alternative assessment tools.


The process of evaluation is often not well defined. It is better for the teacher as well as the student if the evaluation tool is easy for all to follow. I never knew there existed so many methods of assessing the students' performance.


In the article by Jo-Ellen Tannenbaum "Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students”, she mentions non-verbal assessment methods such as physical demonstration and pictorial products as well as other methods such as KWL charts, Oral presentation, role play, content area logs, reading response logs, dialogue journals and portfolios. That’s quite a few! Out of these methods the ones I have used for evaluation are Oral presentations, role play and pictorial products.



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