Teaching guide
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
Academic year: 2023-2024
Degree: University Master's Degree in Bilingual Education
Faculty/School: Postgraduate School and Vocational Training
Course: ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN CLIL.
Type: Compulsory ECTS credits: 4
Year: 1 Code: 8369
Teaching period: Second semester
Area: Planning, Teaching and Evaluating
Module: The Bilingual Classroom
Teaching type: Distance
Language: English
Total number of student 100
study hours:
Teaching staff E-mail
Sophie McBride [Link]@[Link]
SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
The subject “Assessment and evaluation in CLIL” studies continues evaluation in CLIL thoroughly. We will study
the complexity of evaluating simultaneously linguistic and area competences. Moreover, the students will analyse,
adapt and create their own assessment tools.
GOAL
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The main goal of this subject is for the student to get to know the different types of evaluation that exist and that
can be taken to the classroom, as well as study the benefits of a correct evaluation. Moreover, the student will get
to know the CLIL model: why and how to evaluate following this model. Finally, we will provide students with the
necessary tools in order to create their own evaluation systems following this model.
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
No specific theoretical requirements for this course. Good command of English is expected.
COURSE SYLLABUS
1. KNOWLEDGE AND PRINCIPLES
1.1. Content-Based Instruction (CBI)
1.2. Immersion
1.3. Sheltered Instruction
1.4. LAC
1.5. WAC
1.6. CLIL
1.7. Mind Map
2. KNOWLEDGE AND PRINCIPLES: BICS AND CALP
2.1. What is evaluation? What is assesment?
2.2. Assessment vs. Evaluation
2.3. Stages of evaluation: initial, formative, summative
2.4. Features o fan effective assessment
2.5. Principles os assessment
3. MAIN ISSUES REGARDING ASSESSMENT IN CLIL
3.1 Why assess
3.2 What is assessed: language or content?
3.3 Assessment examples
3.4 Who assesses
3.5 How to assess
4. ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS AND PRACTICES
4.1 Assessment for learning vs. Assessment of learning
4.2 Intruments
EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
Participation will be evaluated through attendance to the sessions and participation in the forums.
Active discussion during lessons will be encouraged.
Students will have to contribute with their ideas to two forums based on the history and politics of bilingual
education.
Students will have to complete self-correcting tests on the issues treated in the class and those targeted for the
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study at home.
Students are expected to complete two assignments based on some of the most relevant aspects dealt with in
class. Students will have to write two academic papers after having carried out some research. These tasks can
be done individually or in pairs.
Students will have to sit a final Test.
DISTRIBUTION OF WORK TIME
CLASSROOM-BASED ACTIVITY INDEPENDENT STUDY/OUT-OF-CLASSROOM
ACTIVITY
6 hours 94 hours
SKILLS
Basic Skills
To endow students with learning skills to enable them to pursue their studies in a largely self-taught or
independent manner.
To possess and understand knowledge laying the foundations for or offering scope for originality in the
development and/or application of ideas, often related to research.
To endow students with capacity for applying knowledge and problem-solving skills acquired in new settings or
largely unknown ones as part of a broader (or multidisciplinary) context linked to their area of study.
To endow students with capacity to integrate knowledge and cope with the complexity of forming judgments based
on incomplete or limited information including reflections on social and ethical responsibilities associated with the
application of their knowledge and judgments.
To ensure students are able to convey their conclusions and knowledge to specialist and non-specialist audiences
in a clear unambiguous manner, providing convincing reasoning backing them up.
General Skills
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Assess the importance of speaking English and knowing other cultures in a global society, devising different
strategies in order to transmit to the student the importance of multiplurarlity.
Design teaching-learning processes based on the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages of the European Union.
Analyse the new forms of communication developed by the new technologies and apply them in order to achieve
the improvement and internationalisation of English-Spanish bilingual education.
Assess the methods. strategies and resources present in the Spanish-English bilingual system in Obligatory
Education, selecting those that present the best results in the development of communicative and cultural skills in
the English language.
Assess the challenges that a student in a bilingual Spanish-English system of Obligatory Education faces, creating
teacher-learning processes that adapt to his or her needs.
Design and develop learning spaces with special attention to equity, emotional education and values, equal rights
and opportunities between men and women, citizenship education and the respect for Human Rights which
facilitate life in society, the taking of decisions and the building of a sustainable future.
Specific skills
Design curricula according to the CLIL model, integrating linguistic and disciplinary content which develop the
(Spanish-English) bilingual model.
Promote the reflection and assessment of the different teaching models and the assessment tools used in
evaluating the teaching of English as a foreign language.
Create and adapt material and assessment tools that may be used in the bilingual classroom (Spanish English),
bearing in mind the level of linguistic competence of our students, the different learning rates and their suitability
for being used in the subject¿s knowledge area.
LEARNING RESULTS
Recognizes the pedagogic function of the evaluation.
Puts the different types of evaluation into practice.
Analyzes the benefits of a correct evaluation.
Values the CLIL method and its evaluation.
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Distinguishes who, what and how do we evaluate using the CLIL method.
LEARNING APPRAISAL SYSTEM
ORDINARY CALL EXAM.
EXAM. Multiple choice test 50% (5 points).
- It will be necessary to realize the exam to pass the subject.
ACTIVITIES. Works with theoretical and practical questions: 40% (4 points).
•Activity 1: 2 points
•Activity 2: 2 points
PARTICIPATION. Active participation: 10% (1 point).
Forums: 0,5 points
•Forum 1: 0.25 points
•Forum 2: 0.25 points
- The comment to each of the forums must contain between 60 and 120 words to be taken into account.
Class participation: 0,5 points
Participation will be valued through proactive participation in the class sessions.
PARTICIPATION CAN NEVER BE EVALUATED BY THE CONNECTION TO THE CLASS SESSIONS, but the
students must participate in them and justify it by means of a screenshot that the must upload to the platform.
Those students who cannot connect to the class sessions will have the possibility to visualize the session and make
a SUMMARY to obtain that participation note.
- The summary must contain between 120 and 240 words, summarize the content of the class session and
the practical activities carried out.
EXTRAORDINARY CALL
EXAM. Multiple choice test 50% (5 points).
- It will be necessary to realize the exam to pass the subject.
ACTIVITIES. Works with theoretical and practical questions: 40% (4 points).
•Activity 1: 2 points
•Activity 2: 2 points
PARTICIPATION. Active participation: 10% (1 point).
Forums: 0,5 points
•Forum 1: 0.25 points
•Forum 2: 0.25 points
- The comment to each of the forums must contain between 60 and 120 words to be taken into account.
Attendance and participation: it is necessary to carry out the attendance and participation in the class sessions in
the ordinary call in order to obtain this score. It will not be possible to get the score for class attendance and
participation if it is not done during the ordinary call.
SECOND AND FOLLOWING CALLS. For these students, the ordinary and extraordinary call system will remain the
same.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DELIVERY OF ACTIVITIES.
The student must deliver the exercises on the date and channels indicated. The student is responsible for being
aware of the Virtual Classroom to check these deliveries and deadlines. The work will be delivered on the date
indicated by the teacher, in PDF format, in the space designated for this purpose in the Virtual Classroom of the
subject, not being the teacher's responsibility that the Virtual Classroom system collapses minutes before delivery.
Delivery of activities will not be accepted by email to the teacher. All those works presented out of date or by other
means will count as not presented works.
EVALUATION REGULATIONS All the tests that can be evaluated will be subject to what is established in the UFV
Graduate School and Permanent Training Evaluation Regulations and the University's Coexistence Regulations.
Plagiarism behaviors, as well as the use of illegitimate means in the assessment tests, will be sanctioned in
accordance with what is established in these regulations. Teachers have at their disposal an anti-plagiarism
computer tool that they can use as they deem necessary. The student will be obliged to accept the permissions for
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the use of the tool in order for that activity to be qualified.
The use of artificial intelligence to perform any of the requested deliveries that are part of the evaluation system is
not allowed.
SCORES The final grade will be based on a total score of 10 points obtained by the student, according to the
following scale: Failure (suspenso): 0-4.99 / Pass (aprobado): 5-6.99 / Notable (notable): 7-8.99 / Excellent
(sobresaliente): 9-10 and Matriculation of Honor (matrícula de honor), which will imply having obtained outstanding,
in addition to a special mention.
Those absences that are due, solely, to these three cases will be justified (requesting documentation for said
justification):
•Writ of summons.
•Hospitalization.
•Death of direct family member.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND OTHER RESOURCES
Basic
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