Evaluation And Assessment In Elt

Abstract

Confusion in understanding the terms of ‘evaluation’ and ‘assessment’ by the majority ofteachers and learners is inevitable. Therefore, a clear explanation needs to be given to overcome theproblem, since these two terms are the main duties of every teacher as stated in the teachers and lecturerslaw No. 14, 2005. It is stated in the law that a teacher is a professional teaching staff whose main dutiesare to educate, to teach, to guide, to direct, to train, to assess and to evaluate learners of formal educationat the levels of primary education and secondary education, including early childhood education. Besides,assessment is one of the contextual teaching and learning (CTL) components that a teacher does inteaching learning process. Some other terms that need to be described in order to possess goodunderstanding on evaluation and assessment are ‘measurement’ and ‘test’. Some differences of traditionalassessment and alternative assessment are also discussed in this paper. In addition, the characteristics ofassessment are also introduced to get clear description about this term. It is also mentioned the importanceof evaluation carried out in teaching and learning language skills which include productive and receptiveskills.