Week 15: Using Technology to Give Feedback.

The article for this week is called “Assessing Language Using Computer Technology”. The article is about the use of computer in the field of language assessment which is referred as Computer-Assisted Language Testing.

The article talks about that online quizzes can have some advantages as well as disadvantages.  For students and teachers immediate test results and feedback are an important advantage of using computer technology in the field of assessment. Teachers have fewer tests to evaluate and students don’t have to wait for having their results. However, that depends on the kind of questions they have to answer.  There are some questions that need that the teachers read carefully what students wrote to evaluate if it is correct or not. Also, the scoring system may fail, we have to remember that technology is not perfect and sometimes it can commit mistakes.

Furthermore, when teachers need to give feedback to students. Using technlogy and a computer is easier because using this tool teacher can just send feedback to each student quickly and the feedback is personal for everyone. In this way teacher do not have to be face to face with students in order to check feedback.