Designing Classroom Language Tests

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Reflexion: Assessing my blog

When I read this rubric I realized that I made many mistakes in terms of citation, because every time I posted a picture from other sources I never cited them. Also, I realized that I made some grammar mistakes, so for the next time I am going to be careful with these issues.

On the other hand, I feel happy because whenever I wrote a reflexion I wrote it with my heart. I am very pleased because the things I learnt when I wrote all of this entries. Of course I must accept that at the beginning of the exercise I was upset because of the extra homework but know I can see al, the benefits of writing a blog.

Finally I have to say that I will probably continue writing in the blog randomly because now I am aware that my writing can help me to develop critical thinking and also can help other people who are looking for answers in terms of assessment in the classroom.

How to collect data and the uses of it

For collecting data people have designed many useful tools like journal, questionnaires and interviews. With this stuff we can collect personal information, educational background, perceptions, likes and dislikes. Likewise, it is important to mention that these implements play an important role when a researcher or a teacher is collecting information in order to improve their practices.

In addition to that, journals, questionnaires and interviews are very convenient because they provide secondary information about the speaking and writing skills. But, why is it important? Well, it provides valuable information for planning to assess the course and give uniform feedback to the students that are in the group.

Finally, journal, questionnaires and interviews can be applied in classrooms in order to collect data with the only purpose of solving the issues that can appeared in the classroom.

The importance of using portfolios

Assessment can be done in the classroom by using many tools. The thing is that sometimes teachers do not know the tools or maybe because of time they do not implement them. But, at this point i would like to mention that, as we have already seen before, assessment is very important in order to improve teaching practices, approach, etc.


In the classroom, one tool teachers can use to collect data and valid information about students’ performance, etc. are the portfolios. With this tool, educators can observe the way students develop competences, also, the way they think and behave.


Even portfolios are time-consuming; they are a useful tool to measure students authenticity, needs and qualities. Finally, there are three steps before teachers apply portfolios:

• Set a clear objective in order to evaluate if the objective can be covered.
• Think about the problems teachers can face considering the lack of materials.
• Time and students’ apathy about designing them.