BLOGS as ONLINE TOOLS for EFL

ASSESSMENT

Presenter: Olga Morozan,

MA, PhD candidate,
Access Microscholarship Program Moldova
Coordinator, American Councils Moldova

January 31, 2015

When teachers assess student learning and

performance acquired due to online
assignments, it concentrates his /her main goal
on purely formative purposes, since often there
is no final mark on the paper and no summative
grade in the grade book.
Rather, assessment serves as practice for
students, just like a meaningful homework
assignment does.
This formative assessment the most
valuable one -supports learning through an
immediate online peers or teachers feedback,
or even better a self- reflection posted as
text-/media-based blog comment.

EVALUATION vs ASSESSMENT?

FORMATIVE & SUMMATIVE

TASK 1.
FORMATIVE VERSUS SUMMATIVEASSESSMENT
Write your reflections on the following:

a.define a formative assessment, and reasons of using it in

instruction ( maximum 3 phrases);
b.state the difference between formative and summative
assessment ( maximum 2 phrases);
c.identify 3 strategies of formative assessment you
consider most effective for your students, justifying your choice
( maximum 3 phrases).

BLOOMS TAXONOMY = WEBB'S

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) CHART

TASK 2: ONLINE TOOLS FOR EFLASSESSMENT

Select online tools you could use to ensure the formative
assessment strategies. Please consider that the digital platforms
should be described accordingly:
online tools you have already used in the previousAssignments,

and
new digital platforms you have learned about from the

references listed below.

MENTIMETER.COM

RUBRICS :
a means of communicating expectations for an
assignment, providing focused feedback on works
in progress, and grading final products ;
a document that articulates the expectations for
an assignment by listing the criteria, or what counts,
and describing levels of quality from excellent to
poor.
Rubrics can teach as well as evaluate.

When used as part of a formative, student-centered

approach to assessment, rubrics have the potential to
help students develop understanding and skill, as well
as make dependable judgments about the quality of
their own work.
Students should be able to use rubrics in many of the
same ways that teachers use themto clarify the
standards for a quality performance, and to guide
ongoing feedback about progress toward those
standards.

DEVELOPING A RUBRIC

Scale

Description
of the
Dimension

Task
Description

Dimension

CREATING RUBRICS USING RUBISTAR

TASK 4: LET'S CREATE AN ONLINE RUBRIC TO

ASSESS A STUDENT PROJECT.

Choose one of the online assignments posted by your

students on our blog throughout the EFL Blogging School,

choose one you like most (for e.g. , a Narrable or Stupeflix
video, a Voicethread or blog E-Portfolio, a poem or an essay
posted on your blog),
and create a rubric to assess the accuracy and completeness
of the accomplished task.

NICOLETA

PUSHNEY IRINA