Assessment

Assessment of Indonesian language proficiency can be made through measuring student performance against criteria on a number of assessment tasks, and against the Key Performance Measures.

During the Carilah oleh-oleh learning sequence, students are asked to keep a learning journal, which allows them to demonstrate and assess their understanding.

Throughout this series of Teacher Resources, examples of assessment as, for and of learning are included as appropriate. See Effective assessment for an explanation of these assessment terms.

The purpose of assessment during the course of the learning sequence is to inform students and teachers of the progress of the learning sequence. Students should be aware of assessment points and what they should do to be successful before doing a task.

The following assessment points are linked to where they occur in the Teaching Notes section:

Assessment for learning: Considering students' learning journals and their contributions to group discussions, assess the extent to which students:

• identify verb forms eg ber-, me-, me-kan, me-i
• noun forms eg pe-, -an, pe-an, per-an, ke-an
• compare English and Indonesian language structures, giving examples
• derive the rules correctly
• explain their understanding clearly.

Assessment as learning: Student self-assessment of their ability to understand the Indonesian language in the learning object.

How well did I:

• identify different sources of information in the learning object?
• identify the difference between fact and opinion
• understand the gist or main idea of what was happening?
• infer the meaning of some unknown words?
• follow who was speaking in the conversations?
• answer the quiz questions?

Students could also comment generally on what they found most interesting and most difficult.

Assessment for learning:

Using students' learning journals and revised concept maps, assess the extent to which they:

• identify cultural conventions in gift-giving in Indonesia
• identify parallel cultural conventions in gift-giving in Australia
• compare those conventions in Indonesia and Australia
• draw conclusions about the factors contributing to cultural differences between the two countries
• justify their opinions
• analyse the relationship between cultural conventions and national identity
• clearly explain their ideas.

Assessment of learning:

Read / view gift-giving dialogues, and assess the extent to which students:

• use language appropriate to gift-giving
• use appropriate greetings and forms of address
• create mood and feeling (eg through use of adjectives)
• create original text by inserting new words into familiar sentences or by extending rehearsed language patterns to new context
• use correct punctuation, such as full stops, capitals, question marks, commas
• plan and edit own work
• choose an appropriate gift, and explain why it is appropriate
• use correct pronunciation, stress patterns, intonation & phrasing
• monitor own language and attempt self correction
• use appropriate gestures and facial expressions to convey meaning

Assessment for learning:

Assess the extent to which students:

• clearly explain their concept of 'culture' and 'national identity'
• analyse and understand the connections between culture, values and national identity
• give examples from both Indonesia and Australia
• justify their ideas.

Achievement in Indonesian proficiency can be measured against the Key Performance Measures (KPMs) for Indonesian Yr 10 (Word or PDF). Students who are in Yr 8/9 can be considered as working towards these Key Performance Measures.