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Assessment and motivation: end-of-year debates

30 de novembro de 2019

Assessment has always been an area of great debate among ELT professionals, given its apparent intangibility in connection to the real use of the language. Many of us have been faced with learners watching TV in English and getting back to class saying they understood nothing the actors said, thus questioning the evaluation system that...Read More

Reflections about Education

assessment, emphaty

The day Glenn Greenwald came up in a conversation that was not about politics — or was it?

5 de agosto de 2019

by Natália Guerreiro

“What do you think of Glenn Greenwald’s Portuguese?” That question came out of the blue to me, but there I was, chatting to an air traffic controller before we started his English proficiency interview about a third person’s Portuguese language proficiency. I thought of a video I saw after the first Vaza Jato news: “Well,...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

assessment, CEFR, criteria, language proficiency, needs analysis, reflections about education

Let’s examine our mental models on assessment

29 de novembro de 2018

by Isabela Villas Boas

In his book Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares about Education, Peter Senge (2012) talks about mental models and how we need to examine them in order to change. What keeps us from changing, many times, is that we do not think about why we think the...Read More

Language testing & assessment

assessment, mental-models

Assessment in CLIL and bilingual education: more than just language

27 de janeiro de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

EFL teachers that change into a bilingual education environment, often tend to forget that they are not teaching language as the primary goal anymore and that has dramatic implications. The acronym CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning – implies that there is much more to it than just language teaching. But what is there...Read More

Language testing & assessment, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

assessment, bilingual-education, CLIL

Speaking Assessment

9 de outubro de 2017

by Beatriz Meneguetti

Teaching Young Learners have always interested me and assessing them comes hand in hand with it, obviously, so, for sometime now, I have been researching this area and developed a work on speaking assessment which I would like to share with you. In order not to bore you all with an ginormous reading, I have...Read More

Language testing & assessment, Reflections about Education

assessment, speaking, young_learners

What does it mean to communicate? Part II – Montblancs vs. Bics

5 de março de 2017

by Natália Guerreiro

Once, when I needed to sign a document, I borrowed a pen from a person very dear to me. I immediately felt something was wrong. My handwriting wasn’t flowing naturally and I wondered what was up with the pen. That’s when I saw a 6-point white star on the top. The owner of the pen...Read More

Language testing & assessment, Reflections about Education

assessment, communication, communicative approach, indigenous assessment criteria, language, language for communication, performance assessment, standards

Punishing with grades – Are you ready to rethink your grading system?

8 de março de 2016

by Isabela Villas Boas

I have recently read two posts about grading that touch upon a topic that has long been boggling my mind – the use of grades as punishment and the overall fairness of grading systems. I would like to invite you to check out Monte Syrie’s explanation of why he doesn’t give zeros anymore, or...Read More

Language testing & assessment

assessment, grades

The Power of Portfolio Assessment

8 de setembro de 2015

by Isabela Villas Boas

Despite my 15 years of experience with portfolio assessment, its power never ceases to amaze me. I’ve recently conducted a course for public school English teachers in the Federal District and, once again, used portfolio assessment. I have a feeling that some educators might not adopt portfolio assessment because they think it is too complicated;...Read More

Language testing & assessment, Teacher Development

assessment, classroom assessment, portfolio assessment

Attitude regarding students’ work

7 de outubro de 2014

by Beatriz Meneguetti

I got a message one of these days which said “No matter what’s happening. CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY. Don’t focus on what’s wrong. Find something positive in your life!” by Joel Osteen, and that made think about being a teacher and assessing students. We have just had our mid-term tests in the school and that’s...Read More

Reflections about Education

assessment, feedback, teachers’ beliefs

How’s opinion polling like classroom testing? Reflections on election day

5 de outubro de 2014

by Natália Guerreiro

It’s election day in Brazil, and polls have featured extensively both in the traditional and social media. Some voters seem to work out their candidates based on the polling results; others doubt them. Either way, I don’t see much questioning of the importance of polling. And that kind of reminds me of classroom tests. (I…Read More

Language testing & assessment

assessment, classroom assessment, language testing, testing

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