Appreciation of Teaching Assessment on the Criterion of New English course[/b]

Wang Guangzhao[/b]

. The background and gist of teaching assessment[/b]

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[/b]The teaching evaluation is the key tache in the criterion of new English course. This is why the experts change the terms as exam and check in the old teaching syllabus into curriculum assessment. To be exact, curriculum assessment should contain the evaluations towards the students, teachers and the school, the first of which is the most important. Personally, the character of evaluation lies in obtaining the feedback of teaching, monitoring the teaching quality, revising and guiding our teaching. Its evaluative target is to stress on the human-based idea, facilitate the all-round development of the educatees, promote the teachers to improve their teaching and accelerate the development of English teaching. The criterion of new English course puts forward such evaluating modes as self assessment, group assessment, teacher assessment and expert assessment, which make the routine teaching evaluation more scientific and humanistic. In the past, people used to say turkey to one and bazzard to another between the formative assessment and the summative assessment but now the new criterion thinks much of the organic combination of the two. As a matter of fact, the latter one remains the key method of teaching evaluation. The formative assessment is an important component and impulsing factor of teaching, the task of which is to carry on assessment of the behavior of the students in the course of their daily study, the progress they ‘ve made and the development reflected on their emotion, attitude, strategies, etc. The so-called summative assessment means the evaluation on the learning results of the students, which emphasizes particularly on.the seeing about the ability of using English practically. Its main form is the examination including listening test, written test and oral test. The examinations can be classified into two types: good-sized tests such as NMT(National Matriculation Test), graduating test, midyear and minitype tests like semester test, unit test. The new course criterion specially encourages all the schools especially those in coastal developed cities to create conditions actively to increase oral test. The principles of designing test questions are to decrease the pure grammatical questions and play down the difficulty of grammatical questions in the light of the new teaching outline, lay stress on. Intercommunication, give prominence to passages, increase the test questions with language settings and reduce objective questions properly. Meanwhilesuch as the invigorative principlethe principle of stressing on formative assessment and the principle of activity. The following problems should be paid attention to in the practical teaching assessment: 1. Embodying the subjective position of the students during the assessment. 2. Emphasizing upon the function of the formative assessment in the development of the students. 3. Paying more attention to the diversity and flexibility of the evaluating methods. 4. Thinking much of the feedback function of the evaluating results towards teaching. 5. The summative assessment must attach importance to checking the ability of using English synthetically of the students. 6. Adverting in dealing with the relation between teaching and assessment properly. 7. Carrying out all levels of assessment according to the course targets. 8. Keeping the intimacy towards the assessing results. 8. Embodying the different characteristics of electives and required courses in the assessment. 9. Paying more attention to the actual effect and utilizing the assessing means rationally and correctly.