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Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
This free course, Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages, will identify and explore some of the key issues around assessing modern foreign languages in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your assessment practice as a modern foreign languages teacher and develop a greater awareness of the implications of assessment practice on pedagogy and its relevance for modern foreign language education.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- articulate what it means to make progress in MFL
- list a number of key assessment strategies
- identify the challenges to assessing language learning
- outline the differences between formative and summative assessment
- classify some different assessment approaches.
First Published: 29/03/2016
Updated: 22/06/2016
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I enjoyed this course. Interesting information on giving feedback and assessments. The link to "Feedback is the best nourishment" did not work, so I just Googled the title of the article and I was then able to access it on the TES website.