Importance Of Formative Evaluation In Education

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To start with, I would like to say that I could draw some relevant conclusions after having analyzed how the evaluation system works at school. First of all, I would like to make a comment on the importance of the formative evaluation for students. As I have explained in the description section, the formative evaluation has as its main aim to help and guide students in their learning process, so that they can make progress little by little. This idea appeared in Perez Pueyo's conference "La evaluación formativa", which was held in March 2017 at the Faculty of Education of the University of León, where he talked about the formative evaluation: "formative evaluation: the process whose main aim is to improve the teaching-learning process when …show more content…

Without any doubt, this is something that really caught my attention because it is not normally what teachers in ESO are used to do; the day I went with the Mathematics teacher to see how he gave his classes, I asked him about his evaluation criteria, and I can safely affirm that they have nothing to do with the ones my tutor has for English: for him, the personal work is 20% while the exams are the 80% of the final work. After that, I discussed it with my tutor and what she told me made me realize that when learning a language, it is much more important to assess students' daily work than final exams, since the learning of a language is something progressive and continuous. This made me understand that final exams are not that relevant, since a student may have a pretty good level of English, he may have worked a lot during the term, but because of any circumstance, he may have a bad day the day of the exam. In the case of other subjects, he would fail the subject, however, following my tutor's evaluation criteria, he would not fail if he has worked properly during the term. It is worth mentioning that during these two months, I have seen several cases of students who have not passed both exams, but who had done pretty good during the term, they have participated in class, they have worked on their portfolios and on the group projects, and they are going to pass English in June. Definitely, if I get to become an English teacher in the future, I would like to follow these evaluation criteria because they undoubtedly favors

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