Evaluation and Additional Reinforcement and Practice
End-of-Chapter Evaluation
Once you complete all lessons in a chapter, it is time to move on to the formal evaluation phase. Let’s take a few minutes now to look at the Evaluation section of our sample chapter.
1. The Evaluation section includes several tasks. Look at the heading “Listening and Speaking.” In this task, you will have students follow directions and answer questions that test their listening comprehension and speaking abilities. The Resource Book includes a Listening and Speaking Evaluation Form to evaluate each student’s performance. The evaluation form provides a rubric to score the listening and speaking assessment.
2. The next section, called “Reading and Writing,” assesses students’ reading and writing skills. At this stage of the evaluation process, you will administer a Chapter Post-Test to see if students mastered the target vocabulary and concepts of the chapter (including language forms and functions). The Chapter Post-Test is the same test that you administered to students as a pre-test at the beginning of the chapter. The results of the post-test will help you determine what vocabulary and concepts need to be reviewed and reinforced before moving on to the next chapter.
See page 33 of each Teacher’s Guide (Set 1 and Set 2) for the corresponding chapter test scoring instructions.
3. Now look at the heading called “Portfolio Evaluation.” Throughout their study of the chapter, students are asked to place samples of their work in their individual portfolios. During the end-of-chapter evaluation, you will review the work in each student’s portfolio and assess it using the Portfolio Evaluation Form provided in the Resource Book.
4. The last heading you will see is titled “Teacher-Student Meeting and Portfolio Review.” Using the Portfolio Evaluation Form that we just reviewed, you can talk to students about the work they produced during the chapter and discuss what areas (if any) need additional practice.
  
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