EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT IN ELT
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2014-02-06
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
Confusion in understanding the terms of 'evaluation' and 'assessment' by the majority of teachers
and learners is inevitable. Therefore, a clear explanation needs to be given to overcome the
problem, since these two terms are the main duties of every teacher as stated in the teachers and
lecturers law No. 14,2005. It is stated in the law that a teacher is a professional teaching staff
whose main duties are to educate, to teach, to guide, to direct, to train, to evaluate, and to assess
learners of formal education at the levels of primary education and secondary education, including
early childhood education. Besides, assessment is one of the contextual teaching and learning
(CTL) components that a teacher does in teaching leaming process. Some other terms that need to
be described il order to possess good understanding on evaluation and assessment are
'measurement' and 'test'. Some differences of traditional assessment and altemative assessment
are also discussed in this paper. In addition, the characteristics ofassessment are also introduced
to get clear description about this term. It is also mentioned the importance of evaluation carried
out in teaching and learning language skills which include productive and receptive skills.
Description
Keywords
evaluation, assessment, measurement, test, teaching, learning