Task 1: Diagnostic Assessment Interview
For this task, you will need to arrange to interview your MST at a time
convenient to her. The focus of this task is to understand:
- what diagnostic assessment has taken place this school year in your
class,
- who developed the diagnostic assessment (teachers, school
management, ADEC/MOE, etc.),
- how the diagnostic assessment was carried out,
- what the purpose of that diagnostic assessment was/is, and
- what decisions the teacher made as a result of the diagnostic
assessment.
You need to prepare a minimum of 10 questions prior to the interview. You
may add additional questions during the interview based on your teachers
responses, i.e. to clarify answers or garner further information.
You will need to record your teachers responses use the strategy that
works best for you. If you are using a voice recording device, you MUST
inform your MST.
The interview must be typed and included in your Portfolio.
You may develop your own questions specific to your context, however
the following may give you some ideas.
Example Interview Questions
1. What diagnostic assessment has taken place this semester?
2. When did this occur?
3. What types of assessments were conducted? (written, oral, practical,
etc.)
4. Who developed these assessments?
5. Who conducted the assessments? (classroom teacher, Arabic teacher,
classroom assistant, etc.)
6. Were the assessments completed by students individually?
7. What information did you hope to get from the assessments?
8. What decisions did you make based on the assessments?
9. How did you group your students? (same/different academic levels,
friendship groups, similar interests, etc.)
10. Do the groups change for different learning subjects/topics?
After the Task - Reflection
Reflect on the interview and the information gained about diagnostic
assessment from your MST. Consider how/why you would implement
diagnostic assessment in a UAE primary classroom in the future. Explain
how this practice will affect student learning in a primary class.
When I make the interview with the teacher she does not help me at all and every
day I say for she let do the interview she say after and after then I do it in the last
week for me in the school also she take the interview question she answer short
answer then she explain for me quickly. So, I will do my best to reflect on the
question and what I understand from these answer. The teacher saying there are a
diagnostic assessment that the students take it in the school and its " Formal
Assessment " but she didn't explain for me how its and really I want to know but she
do it at every week and the type of the formal assessment always the type of the
diagnostic assessment written she say who is develop the assessment the
curriculum but she change the answer and she say the teachers in the school how is
conducted the assessment the MST she do it so she is classroom teacher she do it
for a whole class but she take a help from the assistant but I think if she do the
assessment for all the students and let the assistant monitoring the students, So in
the assessment the student do it individually, for example, I observed the
international exam that in the computer lap so each student do it the exam by
themselves. So when she analysis the mark she see a difference between the mark
and most of the student get full marks. So she make an action plan for the students
and she dived the students in groups based on their academic level and I would use
this strategy in the future because the student's high ability will help the low ability
students and I think its good idea to make a good relationship between the
students,
