Testing, Assessing, and Teaching (H.Douglas Brown)

Second Reading

Testing, Assessing, and Teaching.

I found this reading very interesting and important as well since we as future teacher must know how, when, and why not only test, but also assessing our students. The first thing that we have to know is that there exist differences between testing and assessing. Test is a method which measure somebody’s abilities and knowledge and assessing is an ongoing process.

On the other hand, it is very important to know that all those processes have been used since long time ago, to know the history and the approaches behind them; give us an idea of how assessing and testing really work. We as future teacher should have into account many things at the moment of testing and assessing students. A good assessment can change somebody’s perspective or thought. So, we have to be careful, tactful, and very intelligent.

In addition to this, testing and assessing students is something that go beyond that; it is not only give a student a sheet where he has to answer questions randomly; or talk to him and say “ it is god, or bad” It is talk to the students, support them, advice them if what they are doing is correctly, if it the best way of doing, etc.