Review Jurnal article 4

Review journal entitled Classroom and Formative assessment in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning by Somaye Ketabi and Saeed Ketabi. Department of English. Faculty of Foreign Language. University of Iran. Februari 2014

Assessment as a process of collecting information about something that we are interested in, according to procedure that are systemic and substantially grounded (Bachman. 2004). Formal assessment are used to evaluate the students’ achievement in a periodical time. Test are taken to consider:

1    1. A students has got the idea of the topic and ready to the the next level.

2    2.  The difficult parts of a topic or subtopic.

3    3.  What students have known and have to know more

4    4.  Classify the students.

However a formal assessment is just to test the students’ knowledge without considering the process.

Informal assessment is an unplanned assessment. It’s usually conducted by giving some comments or feedback to the students’ work. It’s to motivate and compliment the students’ effort. On the other words, informal assessment means to assess the students’ knowledge and performance without any time limit and exact time.

Summative assessment is to evaluate the learning process and it is usuallly done in the end of the semester. Final exam is one of the summative assessment. On the other hand, formative assessment is takes place during the learning process. It’s to control the learning process by giving some positive feedback to the students.

Implicit assessment is an accidental assessment. Sometimes both teachers and students don’t realize the existence of it. Explicit assessment is a planned and designed assessment which has announced before.

Classroom assessment can be implicit or explicit, formative or summative, but mostly used formative assessment. Formative assessment can improve the learning and teaching process. Students and teacher can work together to create a good learning environment. This formative assessment also can avoid the students for being stressed because of the planned assessment such as final exam.

Both Summative and formative assessment are important to apply in the learning and teaching process. The aim of Summative assessment is to know the understanding of the students for the whole topics given. Whereas the formative assessment is to evaluate the teaching and learning process. Teachers have to consider all this assessments in giving marks to the students. The teachers should not only evaluate the end process, but all the process from the beginning till the end.