Performance in a controlled task is not evidence of acquisition. Good classroom assessment probes transfer, delay and spontaneity.
Notes
- The illusion of learning - correct answers are not acquisition
- Learning to learn starts in primary
- DELTA Module 3 reading list - exam classes specialism
More notes (by source)
A Journey in TEFL
- Close lessons deliberately - a menu of closing routines
Adaptive Learning in ELT (Philip Kerr) - Adaptive learning - hype vs evidence
- Does ChatGPT enhance learning - performance is not learning
After Octopus (Vedrana Vojkovic Estatiev) - Design peer review so it produces useful feedback
Alfie Kohn - The case against grades
An ELT Notebook (Sue Swift) - DELTA Module 1 Paper 2 - task-by-task technique
Barefoot TEFL Teacher (David Weller) - CCQs and ICQs - check with evidence, not nods
Book - Thinking in English (John B. Muciaccia) - Visible success drives motivation - and the intermediate plateau
Cambridge World of Better Learning - Assess speaking with exam criteria and official videos
Clare’s ELT Compendium (Clare Maas) - Check your feedback language against learners’ level
Collins ELT - Mock tests need a reflection routine
ELT Planning (Pete) - BICS and CALP - useful distinction, too rigid as a sequence
ELT-CATION (Svetlana Kandybovich) - Turn writing feedback into a learning activity
Edutopia - Familiarity is not mastery - retrieve, explain, contrast, transfer
Jamie Clayton - Extensive listening homework needs monitoring and shared texts
Larry Ferlazzo - Improvement rubrics - describe what writers do, not what they lack
Lizzie Pinard - DELTA Module 3 - writing the needs analysis section
My ELT Rambles (Joanna Malefaki) - Fishbowl speaking with narrow-focus peer feedback
Scott Thornbury (An A-Z of ELT) - The ZPD is created in interaction, not a level
TeachingEnglish (British Council) - AI guidelines for teachers - six principles
The TEFL Zone (Rachel Tsateri) - The oral exit ticket
Wednesday Seminars (Zhenya Polosatova) - Feedback on content - make the writer feel read
Key terms (DELTA M1)
validity · reliability · washback/backwash · formative vs summative · AfL · implicit vs explicit knowledge measures · delayed post-test · criterion- vs norm-referenced · practicality