Assessment

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

The purpose of assessment during the course of the learning sequence is to inform students and teachers of the progress of the learning sequence. 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.

Assessment points are included within the Teaching Notes sections. Students should be aware of assessment points and the criteria for success when doing a task.

General assessment criteria for Kesan! - from the Key Performance Measures for Indonesian Yr 6/7:

Using students' printed tasks, and their reflections, as appropriate to the task, assess the extent to which students:

• understand sentences, gist and main ideas when reading and viewing
• identify key words
• infer meaning from context
• recognise features of common text types
• match appropriate texts
• use correct spelling and punctuation when entering text
• write linked sentences using modelled language

Students can also self-assess their use of this learning object using an assessment sheet (in Word or PDF).

Assessment for learning: Advertisements

Considering students advertisements and their discussion, assess the extent to which students:

• identify persuasive advertising techniques
• apply these to the creation of an Indonesian advertisement
• use correct spelling and appropriate Indonesian in their advertisement
• explain clearly their ideas on the effect of advertising on personal identity.

Achievement in lndonesian proficiency can be measured against the Key Performance Measures (KPMs) for Indonesian Yr 6/7 (in Word or PDF). Students who are in Yr 8/9 may also be considered as working towards the Key Performance Measures for Indonesian Yr 10. 'Master' copies of both the Yr 6/7 and Yr10 KPMs are available in the Resources section.