FINAL QUESTIONS

What was missing?
We think that the course was very complete, we have finished the six units and our goals of each competence were done. Our team would have like to see more examples of testing and assessing the four skills, because these kind of test and assessments are the most complete (assesses the four skills) and the most useful in our future classes.
What worked well?
We think all the activities worked well, because you as our teacher give us all the information and examples to do successfully all the activities and also we received feedback that help us to improve our performance.
What could be omitted?
We think every activity has its own purpose, so all the activities were important and they were very well planned and structured. We did not modify anyone.
Did I like the interaction with my classmates and the tutor?
Yes, we liked the interaction with our tutor, because she was very kind and always respond to our requests and questions. All of us as a whole group worked very well, we were respectful and hard workers so our interactions were with solidarity and in a nice way.

GLOBAL REFLECTION

In this course we learned much useful information that is going to help us in our profession. In order to know the difference between evaluation, assessment and testing, to handle informal assessment techniques that allow us to measure the performance of linguistic (lexical skills) and non linguistic aspects (as effort, participation, organization, attendance etc) of the language through the development of an assessment plan, and we also had the opportunity to learned different types of exams as proficiency, achievement, diagnostic, direct and indirect testing etc.
We liked best the unit four, “Testing and assessing the four skills” because we learned some techniques used to assess listening, speaking, reading, writing and grammar, vocabulary, as well as to design our own items for each skill. That was really fun! Another important unit was “the development of a test” we think was an integrative unit, because we use all the information that we already learnt to develop our own test. We liked to include the answer key to the format, because it is very important to always be sure of the correct answers of our test. The narrative of the process was as our justification of our work. We could evaluate the process too and made changes in order to improve items or instructions or even items in order to know the development of our own group and their needs.
The last unit changed our minds, because we did not realized of the importance of this self-assessment, maybe because some teachers did not implement in our subjects, however if we want to become an excellent English teachers we will have to include it. The self-assessment as we learnt has more advantages than disadvantages and the few of them can easily overcome. We are very happy to have learnt important information of “testing, assessment and evaluation”. Our team worked very nice and finally, we want to say thank you teacher Rocio for your support and help we hope to join you in another interesting subject. Regards Jessica, Lorena and Eduardo.