Devising an assessment plan

Assessment in course design

Personal needs
Security
Challenge
Support
Praise
Movement
Goals
Learning expectations
Psychological or physical needs

Learning needs
Specific learning styles
Specific target skills
Exam strategies
Learner autonomy Working at a suitable level

(Future) Professional needs
Specific subskills
Specific vocabulary
Specific functions
Specific text types

Different courses
to meet different learner needs
A 3-day intensive course on exam strategies for students, taking a university entrance exam
A series of one-to-one lessons over 8 weeks on business presentations
A six-month course for future tourists focusing on social and daily survival English
A short summer course in an English-speaking country for teenagers, involving lots of sports, trips to tourist sites and chatting with English teenagers
A once-a-week course for a small group of accountants focusing on English for accountancy, and held in the learners’ company
A four-week online course on writing business letters in English

Language Learning Assessment
Who assesses SSs learning?
What is assessed?
Why assess learning?
When can you assess SSs learning?
How can you assess?
What is done with the results of assessment?

Why and when assess students?

Follow up activities

When designing an assessment plan
Decide on what types of assessment you are planning to use
Consider the cornerstone principles of assessment (validity, practicality, authenticity)
Devise criteria for assessment and grading system
Plan what you are going to do with assessment results

Evaluating the course
Who evaluates the course?
What can be evaluated?
Why evaluate the course?
What are some ways to evaluate it?
When can you evaluate it?
What is done with the results of evaluation?

Goals and Objectives?

Course content?

Organization of the course?

Materials and methods?

Assessment plan? Evaluation plan?

Evaluation plan?