SELF-ASSESSMENT

JESSICA’S SELF-ASSESSMENT OF THE COURSE

Instructions: Grade yourself the performance of the whole course using the scales provided.
1. - Posted all the activities of each unit from 1 to 6 in the specific “Discussion Board” or “Test section”.
2 I posted all the activities required in the course 100%.
1 I posted almost all the activities required on the course > 80%.
0 I posted the middle or less of the required activities <50%.
POINTS: 2
2. - Performance of the activities in order to express quality, and insight in the topics.
2 I always provided insight and quality in the topics.
1 I often stated insight and quality on the topic.
0 I did the activities in a superficially and quickly way.
POINTS: 2
3. - Posted the activities on time.
1 I posted all the activities required on the course on time.
0 I posted almost all the activities on time.
POINTS: 1
4. - Fulfill the established requirements of each activity during the whole course.
1 I always fulfilled the established requirements of each activity.
0 I partially fulfilled the established requirements of each activity.
POINTS: 1
5. – Portfolio work was posted in the discussion board “portfolio” in the established dates.
2 I posted on time my periodic portfolio reports.
1 I posted some portfolio reports on time.
0 No, I never posted any portfolio reports.
POINTS: 2
6. – Did the students’ comments enrich and have respect of their e-mates’ posting?
2 Yes, I always made intelligent and polite comments.
1 Yes, sometimes I made enrichment commentaries to my e-mates.
0 No, I never made any comment to my classmates.
POINTS: 2
SELF ASSESSMENT
TOTAL 10 POINTS



REFLECTION OF THE UNIT 6



This unit was really important for us, because as teachers we have to assess such as formal, informal and with the learner self-assessment in order to have a complete evaluation.
We realized that there are more advantages than disadvantages in the use of self-assessment. The advantages can provide us useful information about students’ expectations and needs, their problems, their strengths, weaknesses how they feel about they own progress, their reactions with the materials and methods being used and what they think about the course in general.
We think the few disadvantages as the mature of the students to assess honestly and the time to performed self-assessment could be overcome if students and teachers will be aware of the importance of this assessment and prepare, organize and have training for it. It’s really worth!
We learnt the different types of techniques and instruments for self-assessment; we preferred the technique “questionnaires”, because we can use them since the beginning of the class, for example the learner questionnaire “Initial self-assessment”, other types are: Diagnostic questionnaires, and Progress questionnaires. We as future teachers might apply the last ones, because it is very important that students could review their learning over some periods of time, and these questionnaires give students a global picture of their own progress.
Finally, we felt happy to know how assess our students in a holistic way. We think is really important to train students as well as teachers, in order to apply correctly self-assessment in the learning process. We now could design our own instruments to evaluate our real students, because our team is teaching English classes in an elementary school. Thanks teacher Rocio for your help and support in our classes.