UNIT 5: Assessment

1. Choose the right sentence:

a. Assessment is not a major area of teacher uncertainty in
CLIL contexts
b. Clear learning objectives are needed before an
assessment focus can be chose
c. Agreed marking criteria means there can be much
confusion about assignment outcomes and expectations
2. Which of the answers below is not an advantage of peerassessment?
a. It focuses on the development of student's judgment
skills
b. Students will have a tendency to award everyone the
same mark
c. Provides more relevant feedback to students as it is
generated by their peers

6. According to Bloom's Taxonomy, at analysis level of learning a

student can:
a. See patterns
b. Compare and discriminate between ideas
c. Predict consequences
7. Formative assessment
a. Is assessment of learning
b. Involves children in assessing their performance and
deciding their next steps
c. Establishes a baseline from which to observe growth
8. We can assess language through a variety of approaches:
a. Grammar, Spelling and Phonics
b. Selected-response, wide-response and neutral-response
c. Selected-response, constructed-response and personalresponse

3. Assessment is a process of .......... and interpreting evidence for

some purpose
a. Collecting
b. Judging
c. Choosing

9. .......... assessment involves children in

performance and deciding their next steps.
a. Formative
b. Summative
c. Diagnostic

4. In CLIL, language and subject

a. Are assessed at the same time and through different
tasks and activities
b. Are always assessed by the teacher
c. Are assessed at the same time and through the same
tasks and activities

10. Diagnostic assessment:

a. Establishes a baseline from which to observe growth
b. Involves children in assessing their performance and
deciding their next steps
c. Is assessment of learning

5. Which of the following activities can be used in the Selectedresponse approach when assessing language?
a. Fill-in, short answers, performance assessments
b. Conference, portfolio, essay writing, oral reports, selfand peer-assessment, interviews
c. True/false, matching, multiple choice

assessing

their

11. We shouldn't familiarize the learners with the assessment

measures and success criteria.
a. True
b. False
12. The goal of formative assessment is
a. To improve instruction and student learning

b. To evaluate student learning at the end of an

instructional unit by comparing it against some standard
c. To give the teachers specific information about when
and how to proceed with instruction
13. Labelling can be very useful at elementary level, or in the
introduction-phase of the lesson.
a. True
b. False

17. Choose the most accurate statement about assessment and

evaluation:
a. Assessment aims to measure only the correctness of the
response
b. Evaluation more often relates to individual students'
achievements
c. Evaluation deals with systems, materials, procedures
and their values

14. If the assessment is orally based, "wait time" is crucial, as in

CLIL contexts we ask students to think.
a. True
b. False

18. Assessment...
a. Always takes place at the end of the lesson
b. Always implies a written document
c. Can be either formal or informal

15. Self and also peer-assessment

a. Could impoverish a CLIL classroom
b. Gives the teacher specific information about when and
how to proceed with instruction
c. Increase student responsibility and autonomy

19. Choose the right sentence:

a. Traditional tests are the most suitable assessment tools
in CLIL lessons
b. Portfolios, classroom diaries and observation grids are
some examples of assessment tools in CLIL lessons
c. Assessment shouldn't be planned
20. There are three categories on assessment:
a. Diagnostic, Formative and Summative Assessment
b. Preliminary, Formative and Summative Assessment
c. Preliminary, Diagnostic and Additive Assessment

16. Content language should be assessed

a. Using the more complex format of language which is
appropriate for that purpose
b. In the student's native language
c. Using the simplest format of language which is
appropriate for that purpose