Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Webography

I am quite interested in Online Language Assessment, the use of Web-based quizzes and activities for classroom testing. Numerous Web sites provide ready-made tests and also offer teachers the capability to custom design their own tests with ease.

With online testing, students access the Internet, go to the site, and take the test. The testing site grades the tests and returns the results. Teachers can view their students' scores, as well as the time it took each student to complete the test.

Any concept that can be tested objectively can be tested online using multiple-choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions. A few sites even allow students to type essays, which are later e-mailed to the teacher for grading. Almost any teacher with Internet access on even a single computer can take advantage of the benefits of online assessment.

The following 7 websites are carefully selected to better illustrate my topic.

1 comment:

Ency said...

I have benefited a lot from this webography project of yours. I find most of the websites offer downloads of activity worksheets, which can be easily borrowed and used in my own class.Some of them are really wonderful warm-up ideas.