Due to the fact that online tutors don't have direct contact with their learners, except in a Blended Learning context, they have to be careful when assessing their work. Tutors should take care to meet the students' needs and support their learners' development and learning. Therefore, tutors are required to use various tools and carefully prepare the criteria for assessment and grading. One of the ways to do so is to prepare a table with `can do` statements .
Please create an assessment table for an activity in an online course you are going to design or teach. Preferably choose the activity you created in Module 1 in this course. Describe what the activity is, the learning aim and present your assessment criteria.
Then have a look at the work of at least two of your fellow trainees and post your comments in the discussion forum in this unit. State what you like in the table, what could be improved and how.
Another way of thinking about the table is to use the matrix of the European Language Portfolio and the principle of I can do statements and the five skills. This is an example:
Topic: Dealing with customers in a restaurant
1 Objective
Linguistic competence: What structures do I want the learner to practise (e.g. polite order, offer)?
E.g. Please, follow me, sir./ May I take your coat?/ Would the table in the corner suit you, sir? Are you ready to order, madam? ...
Communicative competence: What do I want the students to be able to communicate about and in what setting (referring to the five skills)?
E.g. Oral interaction: Receive a customer and take him/her/them to a suitable table in the restaurant, then take the order, small talk ...
Cultural competence: Are there any cultural differences that might cause a (philosophical) discussion ... and lead to cultural understanding?
E.g. What relationship is usually there between a waiter and a customer in a restaurant in a particular country?
I can work as a waiter in a restaurant:
I can receive the customers and show them to their table.
I can take the order.
I can converse naturally with different people while serving them.
I can make excuses if things have gone wrong.
Assessment:
Test oral interaction - by means of a synchronised on-line forum or via Skype (with the possibility of showing a menu via the webcam - an ideal situation; the tool Pamela, e.g., allows you to record your learners` performance if they act out a role-play online).
Self-assessment interactive exercise - practise ordering in a restaurant http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/restaurant/index.shtml
This approach makes both the tutor and the learners very much aware of the learning objectives. Other skills are assessed/tested with other topics (reading, writing).
Topic: Dealing with customers in a restaurant
1 Objective
Linguistic competence: What structures do I want the learner to practise (e.g. polite order, offer)?
E.g. Please, follow me, sir./ May I take your coat?/ Would the table in the corner suit you, sir? Are you ready to order, madam? ...
Communicative competence: What do I want the students to be able to communicate about and in what setting (referring to the five skills)?
E.g. Oral interaction: Receive a customer and take him/her/them to a suitable table in the restaurant, then take the order, small talk ...
Cultural competence: Are there any cultural differences that might cause a (philosophical) discussion ... and lead to cultural understanding?
E.g. What relationship is usually there between a waiter and a customer in a restaurant in a particular country?
I can work as a waiter in a restaurant:
I can receive the customers and show them to their table.
I can take the order.
I can converse naturally with different people while serving them.
I can make excuses if things have gone wrong.
Assessment:
Test oral interaction - by means of a synchronised on-line forum or via Skype (with the possibility of showing a menu via the webcam - an ideal situation; the tool Pamela, e.g., allows you to record your learners` performance if they act out a role-play online).
Self-assessment interactive exercise - practise ordering in a restaurant http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/restaurant/index.shtml
This approach makes both the tutor and the learners very much aware of the learning objectives. Other skills are assessed/tested with other topics (reading, writing).
Time schedule:
You should have finished the table by ...
You should post your comments by ...
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