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Assessment - Class IV

The pattern of assessment in the primary school should be

1. Continuous Assessment 60%
2. Final Examination 40%

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

It is suggested that tests should be spread over the entire academic year. They should be administered on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Continuous assessment should take into account

Unit Tests

After teaching a block of English language which is exemplified in one or two lessons, a unit test should be given. (Sample Unit Tests are given in the Activity Book.) About 8 unit tests should be given in a year. The design of the tests could be

At the end of the year the teacher could work out the average of the learner's performance in the 8 unit tests, and convert it to 20 per cent.

Assignments and Projects

Assignments refer to the variety of activities given in the Coursebook and the Activity Book. It is suggested that about 10 tasks on reading and writing be selected from the two books and administered periodically as class assignments. These assignments have necessarily to be written out.

Projects refer to the projects given in the Coursebooks. Since the projects are largely participatory in nature, the assessment of a learner's performance should be based on an observation of his degree of participation in the tasks.

The teacher should maintain a record of each learner's performance in the assignments and projects, and at the end of the year convert this record to 20 per cent.

Oral Tests

New! Learning to Communicate highlights the teaching and the testing of oral skills. The testing of listening and speaking should, therefore, constitute an essential component of the annual schedule of the teaching of English.

Oral Test (group) should, by and large, be based on the 'Let's Talk' tasks given in each lesson of the Coursebook.

Oral Test (individual): Learner's oral performance should be tested in

FINAL EXAMINATION

Please refer to the Sample Written Test given at the end of the Activity Book.

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