Informal assesment

Informal assessment is a way of collecting information about our students’ performance in normal classes. This is done without establishing test condition. Informal assessment can be done over a period of time like a term or and academic year.

When we are in the classroom with our students we assess their performance when speaking, writing, reading or listening. We can see which students are performing well and which students are finding difficulties. However, to carry out an effective informal assessment we need a systematic observation.

• First of all, we need to work out what we are going to assess, it is impossible to assess all students at the same time.

• Then we must establish clear criteria for assessing students

• Finally it is important to link the informal assessment we do with the formal assessment (test) and with self-assessment done by the students.

• It is not a way of avoiding test, which allows the teachers to make decisions about students base on inform

When marking students composition you may find that rather than trying to measure everything comprehensively you can focus on a couple of aspects, for eg. When assessing a story you can focus on text organisation and linking, not marking grammatical accuracy or spelling; for a project poster you can focus on content and presentation.

An alternative way to assess can be this one:

• It is not a single system which can be used by all teachers in all contexts in all schools. Each teacher needs to find a system which is suitable to their particular situation

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