gained from articles on assessment

1. here are some insights that student must bear in mind and take into consideration:

1.1. Teachers must carefully fit assessment types to the assigned objectives. first they reflect on their objectives and then develop tasks that assess students in relation to those objectives.

1.2. it's important to remeber that each form of assessment is useful for certain purposes and hence all of the different forms are important to keep since each has distinct strengthness and weakness.

1.3. A mixture of the various forms of assessment provides a more complete picture of students' abilities, efforts and progress.

1.4. The noticing and gathering of information about student language use in ordinary classroom activities- whithout necessarily using it for reporting purposes- supports and imroves the process of learning. " a good teacher never cease to observe and assess student".

1.5. teachers should be trained inthe types of tools to assess students comptencies!

1.6. language teachers shoud consider modern intillegenc theories such as MI to design assessments that address the various intellegences and provide all students with an opportunity to demonstrate their abilties.

1.7. it's highly recommended for language teachers to base their assessment on multiple observations and sources of information to increase its reliability.

1.8. language teachers must provide students with an elaborated feedback to the extent that can be couched in terms of more meanngful than a single word.they must ensure that people, not machine, do the scoring.