2.1 Task

In the course of planning your lessons and teaching units, one aspect which deserves attention is the question of how to control and ensure the students’ progress in learning, how to identify the progress they have made, and how to evaluate the results of the students’ learning and your teaching activities. Before the lessons take place, therefore, you must plan how to establish or estimate, and improve the effect and quality of your teaching, and how to record, analyse, improve and judge the students’ work and learning activities. In doing so, you will consider by what measures and instruments you will be able to find out to what extent the class as a whole or individual students have achieved the set objectives and, if required, on what criteria you will base your grading system.

In this chapter you will find out about assessment of students, of teachers and of the school as a whole.