Answer to Question #224222 in English for Olga

Question

1.2 Design a formative assessment activity to be done in class

1.2.1 Name learning outcomes for the identified topic

1.2.2 Link your questions to the identified learning outcomes

1.2.3 Provide the solutions

Answer 1

1.2 Formative assessment helps in monitoring students learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by teachers to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. As a teacher I can provide Continuous Assessment Test (CAT's) on particular topics that I feel I need to know my students' understanding. This topics may be the most testable ones in national exams, Examples would include; draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a topic submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a lecture turn in a research proposal for early feedback.

1.2.1 Formative Assessment Is Outcomes Based

Teachers give frequent and substantive feedback to students about their progress, pointing out both strengths and areas that need improvement. Teachers plan steps to move students closer to learning goals.

1.2.2 Learning outcomes are statements that describe significant and essential learning that learners have achieved, and can reliably demonstrate at the end of a course or program. In other words, learning outcomes identify what the learner will know and be able to do by the end of a course or program.

1.2.3 Effective formative assessment strategies involve asking students to answer well-thought-out, higher-order questions such as “why” and “how.” Higher-order questions require more in-depth thinking from the students and help the teacher discern the level and extent of the students' understanding.