Hello everyone. Good day. ^^
Here is another interesting activity that you may just want to try out. I use Voki for this. Here it goes.
Instruction:
You
are required to listen to the dialogues powered by Voki as given below. Draw
out all the items mentioned in the listening script powered by Voki on the
picture given below.
Which do you prefer - Holistic or Analytic marking?
Honestly
speaking, I personally very much prefer the holistic marking as compared to the
analytic. To me, the former is deemed more practical, i.e. time efficient
especially when a teacher already has so much to do. In addition, it also
highlights the students’ strengths in the subject matter as opposed to the
latter which is sometimes claimed to look more on both student’s weaknesses and
strengths. This I believe is an important aspect when it comes to marking.
Stress???
Nevertheless, the purpose of the assessment
do also play an important role in the selection of the above two mentioned marking
scales. No doubt that when it comes to marking a huge load of examination
papers on essays, i.e. the summative exam, the holistic marking would be a
better suited one. However, during class lesson when a teacher is trying to
teach students on writing a good essay by focusing on each criterion of the
essay separately (content, organization, language, vocabulary, voice and
mechanics), the analytic marking seems to play its role better. Reason being
that the latter breaks down every aspect of the essay into smaller components
and thus allows the possibility of looking at each aspect separately. Hence,
teachers could actually now teach students to master one aspect of the writing
skill at a time. Besides that, analytic marking also helps to identify the
students’ strengths and weaknesses. This allows the teacher to be better equipped
with information on the performance of the students. Moreover, with the scale
given to students as the rubrics, the students would know what and how they are expected to
perform both during the normal in-class ongoing formative assessment as well as
during the summative assessment.
Rubrics- Holistic or Analytic
To
add on to that, reliability does play a role in selecting the marking scales
too. An experienced teacher may appear to have no problem with using the
holistic marking. However, an inexperience teacher or a fresh graduate, on the
other hand, may not be so. They do not fully understand and could not distinguish
between the set of key words used in the rubrics given yet. Hence, it is deemed
more appropriate and easier for an inexperience teacher to actually apply the
later marking scale.
In conclusion, though I prefer the
former marking over the latter, at the end of the day, the purpose of the task
and assessment does have a say in the choice of the marking scales. When the
practicality issue, such as when a teacher is loaded with a lot of marking to
be done in a very short amount of time, is concerned, it would be wiser and
more appropriate to apply the holistic marking. On the other hand, during
normal days when a teacher is helping her students to master each aspect of the
skills individually, the analytic marking would seem to be a better choice.
Want
to know more about holistic and analytic marking when it comes to writing evaluation
for placement purposes? Click here.
