Advancing Learning Podcast
With your co-hosts Will Rixon and Harry Waters, the Advancing Learning Podcast is a place for conversation, debate, idea-sharing and merry-making, all in the name of Advancing Learning in the wonderful world of ELT.
It accompanies the wider Advancing Learning Academic Programme from Macmillan Education, where you'll find a whole range of teacher training webinars, blog articles, resources and more at www.macmillanenglish.com/alap.
Advancing Learning Podcast
S02 E04 What's the Point of Assessment?
Pere Cortiella Ibàñez and Will Rixon pull apart the true purpose of assessment why it's regarded in the way it is by all its players: the teacher, the student, the parent, the institution and the government.
What is the true purpose of assessment?
How does it help the student?
How might the process of assessing be improved from all the aforementioned perspectives?