Diagnostic Assessment. Unit 1

Diagnostic Assessment. Unit 1 

I will start this personal portfolio making a reflection about the first unit of this course.

a) I believe that effective assessment .....

We started the course using our previous knowledge to describe what the assessment involves. We completed a questionnarie. We should make a cross in agree, totally agree, disagree or totally disagree depending on our thoughts about assessment.

This questionnaire was so useful to record my ideas about assessment and to make me think about them. Some classmates didn´t share opinion, so it was a great moment to start a debate. Listening different ideas than my own was interesting.

From this questionnaire, I started to make up my ideas about assessment and I learnt that it should be always measurable, possitive feedback should be given to students as an essential part of assessment. It is because possitive feedback is those that motivate students and not a simple mark. Also, I learnt that to give students opportunities of redoing their work is so important because in this way they can show that they have understood teacher´s feedback. Talking about that, I realised that I should improve at assessment time and I have to take into account all these things. This knowledge that I learned in the first class will be expanded along the sessions.