After reading this study, I have realized
that as future teachers we need to be well trained and well prepared to play a
real language teacher’s role. A part that caught my attention was the one that cites
the teacher’s perceptions towards assessment because there are many differences
between those teachers who have had formal training in language assessment and
those teachers who have not. In this
article, it is said that trained teachers take the assessment as an integral part
to lead students in the learning process because they think that
assessment is a tool to monitor the learning process and to encourage students
to learn; on the other hand teachers
with no training in language assessment tend to have a negative
perception of it because they don’t take assessment as a strategy to encourage
learning, they just do it because it is an easy way to grade students, or
because they have to do the assessment as a requirement of any
institution. As it is said bay the
author, Classroom assessment is an important tool to
collect information to know how well students are experiencing in the learning
process.
But there`s
a concern related to language assessment, Colombia is not an exception to this
problem because there are only two public universities that offer assessment
training to undergraduate programs and taking this into account it can be said
that if this situation does not change, our country will not have a real development
in the field of education. The fact here is that many teachers don’t use other assessment
tools, the majority of them only use tests, and those tests are used for wrong purposes
giving as a result an incomplete and wrong language learning process. This has
a negative influence in the Colombian educational system.
In my
opinion, I think that every teacher should have an active role in the
assessment process, because it changes in many ways how we teach, the way we
provide feedback, the way we prepare our classes and even our student’s
perceptions and conception related to education.
