Discussion 6 Exercise: Which Alternative Assessment?

Group #:ELA - 3
Names: Setia Wati

We’ve been talking about objectives, instructional strategies (teaching/learning), and the assessments that
measure student performance. You can think of the instructional strategy as the vehicle that you use to
help students achieve the objectives. The assessment helps the teacher and the learner know when
objectives have been achieved. This week, we’re exploring different types of alternative assessments.
Most of the alternative assessments can also be considered performance-based – assessing what students
create.

For this exercise, you’ll look at the objectives below and think about which of the activities and
alternative assessment techniques listed would work best.
Then, tick your choices and explain why you think they would be the best.
For some of these settings, you may choose more than one activity or assessment you find
appropriate.
You can talk about what would work best in your own setting, as well. Make sure you describe the degree
for the objective.

Example
Having read about and discussed a controversial topic in class, intermediate-level students will convince
their classmates that their point of view about the controversial topic is correct.
 Tick your choice from the following activities:
o debate,
o essay,
o persuasive speech,
o role-play
 Underline your choice from the following assessment tools:
o checklist,
o peer evaluation,
o rubric
 Why you think it’s a good choice:
A debate lets more students be involved at the same time, with multiple students on a
team. The role-play also has multiple students involved. A persuasive speech will be an
individual effort. A rubric will give learners a clear idea of expectations. Peer
evaluation is a possibility, but best in conjunction with a rubric. An essay is not as
effective for convincing others in a class.
 The elements that you will assess:
use of persuasive language; use of appropriate body language; appropriate vocabulary
and grammar choice (based on what has been covered)
 Degree:
[your choice of percentage on the rubric]

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1. After beginning-level students study and practice body language associated with greetings, they will
demonstrate appropriate greetings to different people using role-plays: their friends, someone their
age that they are just meeting, older family members, and older adults that they are just meeting.
Tick your choice from the following assessment tools
observation checklist
peer evaluation
 Rubric

Why you think it’s a good choice:

Because it give a clear idea of expectations. The teacher easier to identity students ability. The
judgement/scoring subjective base on teachers expectations.
The elements that you will assess:
The elements that you will assess the body language, experiences,and pronunciation.
Degree:
It will be excellent Without any error.

2. Having worked on prepositions of location, beginning-level students will demonstrate their

understanding of above, below, by, in, in back of, in front of, on, to the left of, and to the right of
Tick your choice from the following activity/assessment tools
adding the correct preposition to a sentence next to an image,
drawing figures in the appropriate location in response to the teacher’s instructions,
 information gap activity with a partner (describing where items are located so that the
partner can add missing elements)
Why you think it’s a good choice:
Because it will make students more active in the class and make them have to think a lot what
they have to describe the items,then the partner can easier to add it.
The elements that you will assess:
Use of accuracy preposition. Use of appropriate body language and motivation. vocabulary and
grammar choice based on what has been covered.
Degree:
It will be good because the teacher helps students to understand the instruction how they will
learn from the lesson.

3. After reading about a student-chosen topic online and watching a related YouTube video,
intermediate students will individually present the information to their classmates in an objective
way.
Tick your choice from the following activities:
 Brochure

Facebook post/page
Presentation
 website or blog

written summary of main points handed in to the teacher

Why you think it’s a good choice:
I think because this can clarifies the basis, framework, content and purpose of the subject
matter. So, that students’ understanding becomes clearer the topic with the comment the video
that has been watched.
The elements that you will assess:

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 The teacher needs to show the topic online to the students, while students who are smart and
brave enough to answer the questions that they have watching based on covered.
Degree:
It will be poor with error basic use of accuracy language, attention of the teacher speech,
grammar structures with many minor and major error.

4. After identifying an issue or problem (for example, attracting more people to the community to
improve the economy), advanced-level students will work with a group to discuss a solution to the
problem.
Tick your choice from the following assessment tools:
 learning log

observation checklist
role play
Rubric
Why you think it’s a good choice:
Because this is way of making learning more effective, it can provide the student with regular
speaking practice.it can help to consider student learning and how student can improve.
The elements that you will assess:
The student should submit a single word that with the following information clearly shown.
Degree:
It will be fair with error basic use of accuracy language, grammar structures with major error .

5. After identifying an issue or problem (for example, attracting more people to the community to
improve the economy) and designing a solution to the problem in a group, advanced students will
share their ideas with their family and the community.
Tick your choice from the following activities:
Essay
 dramatic presentation open to the public

Facebook page
 formal presentation to the class

poster highlighting the most important information

Why you think it’s a good choice:
I agree this dramatic presentation open the public is very important in a speech. formal
presentation to the class letting the students imagine a situation or giving them a scenario, very
effective to share their ideas.
The elements that you will assess:
Use of persuasive language to appropriate grammar and vocabulary and information.
Degree:
It will be fair with error basic use of appropriate grammar and self-confident.

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