EFFECTIVE USE OF ASSESSMENT IN TEACHING

EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK

Has my judgment on the effective use of assessment in classroom's teaching been positive? Boldly sef! Thus my note-taking: 

STEPS FOR EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK 

During the application of Formative Language Assessment, besides the teaching and learning activities and appropriating of questioning, a number of steps are required at ensuring effective feedback. These are as highlighted below: 

 1- Task-centeredness (avoiding making it learner's capabilities' directed); 

2- Positivity (i.e aimed at bringing out the best from the learners and not for witch-hunting!); 

3- Moderate feedback (provision of necessary/needed guidelines for learners to scale through a given task); 

4- Progressive feedback (that which would be useful in moving up the ladder); 

5- Timely feedback (that's provided when it's required); 

6- Contemplative feedback (which is to give learners the room to contemplate, understand and think out the rightness and wrongness of given tasks); 

7- Checking/Improvement feedback (hints on the confirmation or reality on learning; has learning taken place or not?).

And the conclusion is that besides the foregoing, peer-assessment should also be incorporated into the learning process as its effectiveness has repeatedly been confirmed!

Event Survey!

TESTS AT MAKING AVIATION RISK-FREE!

           Plane-crashes have always been scary! Though they have been proven to be accidental, the degree of recorded loss could have probably been minimal if those duty-bound at such are round pegs in the best round holes.

          Tests may not be 100% appropriate at determining the best candidates all the time. The situation surrounding a test is predisposed as participants are not oblivious of attending to it and as such may only be valid for the apparent intellectual feedbacks!

          The true nature of who we are, requires a real life situation about which the applicants are not pre-informed! Safety remains everybody's responsibility; nochesitation should therefore be entertained at the availability of more credible and relevant tests at selecting the best hands for air traffic control and pilots as the case may be.

...because it isn't always how far an individual can go with an obligation that

matters most, but how well!

LIVING DEAD!!!

*Toyyib? Na'am, he was...!*

The news of *Toyyib's death* baffles...
Should I say...like a make-belief
Until the reality of well-wishers' reactions
Reveal it to be nothing but the truth!

We love *Toyyib* in our own ways;
Preferring he's here and not there
But Allaah chose death for him
Which, in reality, is the real life!

We pray Allaah forgive his excesses,
Reward his successes,
Preserve all that he left behind for good and,
Take away the fear of the bereaved, aamiin!

*Epele ooo!*

From:
Imaam Misbaahud-Deen BOLAJI and family;

Sending a condolence to the family of Ojetola and Olaiwola worldwide!