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Skills Assessment & Evaluation

Grammar Listening Speaking Reading Writing
 Selected Response Listening for Main idea Communicative Competence  Reading for Basic Holistic
 Multiple Listening for Details Comprehension  Is a method by which
choice Listening for Inferences Direct trained readers a piece
 True/false  Self-correction  Reading for making of writing for its overall
 Matching Assessment for Main Idea  Peer-correction connections quality.
 Discrimination  To measure whether or Indirect
 Limited Production not L2 learners have the  Questioning  Reading to learn new Analytic
 Cloze ability to identify the  Cueing information  Are designed to rate
 Short-answer main topic, idea or  Repetition papers on established
 Dictation purpose. i.e., what is the  Rephrasing criteria.
 Dialogue main idea?  Pinpointing
completion Objective
 Extensive Production Assessment for Details Pronunciation  Uses a rubric that not
 Summaries  To identify whether L2  Focuses in phonemes only identifies which
 Essays learners understand the types of errors will be
 Role-plays important details in a Informal marked but also weights
 Stories1 conversation or a  Formative Assessment those errors according to
lecture. i.e., according  Running records their impact.
to…
Formal
Assessment for Inferences  Summative (grades, Peer Response
 It requires L2 learners to scores, classwork)
listen between the lines  Rubrics
and infer what the
speaker’s intended Both includes error connection
meaning is. i.e., feelings,
likes, dislikes.