Initial activity: Previous Knowledge review

What is evaluation?

In my opinion evaluation is a diagnostic and formative process where the teacher can determine, what topics must reinforce, for the good understanding of the students, I think is not to measure who knows more, is a teaching and learning experience to enhance the techniques, methods and strategies.

- What steps are necessary to develop an evaluation?

·         Talking about the English language there are four steps to develop an evaluation, the reading, listening, speaking and writing.

·         Keep in mind the goals, objectives, provide excellent feedbacks, develop evaluations methods, furthermore the curriculum planning.

- What are the best times to apply an evaluation?

At every time teachers can evaluate, with tasks, homework, questions, activities, etc. all of this to know what is the student’s level and what the teachers need to improve in the teaching also create methods and strategies.

- What types of evaluation do you know? What are the most recommendable for you?

There are a lot of types of evaluation, but the 3 that I already know is the diagnostic, formative and summative, of this 3, the formative evaluation is the most important because this must be the objective of the evaluation that don’t be only make a quantitative analysis but also that increasingly the student acquire knowledge.

- What can determine how reliable the evaluation results are?

First that all before an evaluation there are an investigation about what students need to reinforce,  develop  the objectives, goals, what teachers hope that the students learn and then, create or design a practice evaluation can be through tasks, students opinions, every time in class.