REASSESSING ASSESSMENT: USING PBLL AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO EXAMS

The Coronavirus era has caused us to reexamine both our conceptions and capabilities when assessing students in ESAP courses. Adapting and migrating existing exams to online formats creates huge challenges to the rigor of the assessment. One viable alternative that enables students to display evidence of achievement of stated learning outcomes and attainment of can-dos is Project-based Language Learning (PBLL). In this presentation, we will touch briefly on the dichotomies involved in assessing PBLL: language vs. content; process vs. product; individual vs. group; formative feedback vs. summative feedback. We will then look at the tools available to us on Moodle: grading rubrics and marking guides, and show how they can clarify and simplify the assessment process. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of assessment of Project-based Language Learning.