An analysis of assessment measures in english language learning in an elementary school

Abstract

Assessment is a topic quite related to the learning environment, which raises a great amount of discussions between teachers. Design a good instrument of assessment that in fact assess students’ abilities is challenging and still concern a lot of teachers. This research presents assessment concepts and the characteristics that should be taken into account while designing and analyzing and assessment instrument. The study also presents results acquired by data collected through qualitative research in interview format of students’ impacts while being tested. Besides that, also shows teachers beliefs while designing a test to be applied at classroom. At the end, the research shows an analysis of data collected from students’ perspective, outcomes and answer in the interview with the aspects of motivation, attitude and complexity. Also, relates the teacher’s answers, beliefs and attitudes with validity and reliability. These criteria should be taken into account while designing and analyzing a good assessment instrument.