CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

CONCEPT OF ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION CONCEPT OF ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the main aim of an ESL summative test?
A
To see how students are progressing in a short period of time.
B
To see whether students achieved the objectives in a syllabus.
C
To describe what students are capable of doing in the 2nd language.
D
To gauge if the students are attentive in class
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessments are often high stakes, which means that they have a high point value. Examples of summative assessments include: a midterm exam.

Detailed explanation-2: -Summative assessment aims to evaluate student learning and academic achievement at the end of a term, year or semester by comparing it against a universal standard or school benchmark.

Detailed explanation-3: -Summative assessments are used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period-typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year.

Detailed explanation-4: -Student assessment enables instructors to measure the effectiveness of their teaching by linking student performance to specific learning objectives. As a result, teachers are able to institutionalize effective teaching choices and revise ineffective ones in their pedagogy.

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