Assessing of Reading
Assessing
reading actually is not an easy thing to do. Teacher should consider some
components in assessing reading like the purpose and benefits in assessing
reading, types of reading, strategies for reading and designing assessment
tasks. By applying the appropriate technique in assessing reading, the
test-taker can get fair result score.
Besides, teachers are able to measure the success of the teaching process and
the result of teaching itself.
Gómez, Devís, and Sanjosé (2012: 53) the level of success in the
construction of the text macro-structure can be assessed in several ways.
First, the subjects’ ability to grasp the main ideas of a given text can be
measured by means of summary elaboration. Summaries have quite often been used
as assessing instruments as well as instructional tasks. Second, global
coherence can be assessed by means of “error detection tasks”. These tasks
consist in embedding errors in important ideas to make them inconsistent or
incoherent and asking readers to assess the comprehensibility of the resulting
text
Spiller & Ferguson (2011: 16) set
students regular reading exercises as part of their assessment and link them to
ongoing class content. A percentage should be given for the completion of these
exercises to encourage students to take them seriously but the main focus
should be on formative feedback to simultaneously promote better understanding of
content and enhance reading competencies. In order to cultivate useful habits
of reading and appropriate question-asking, give some focus questions for
students to use with the readings. These can invite them to perform different
reading tasks such as finding the central argument, locating and defining core
conceptual terms, finding a number of supporting points and identifying the
corresponding evidence or illustrations.
Based
on all components above, the writer can conclude that reading increases knowledge
and information in the text. There are many parts of processes and types
of reading because
reading is so
complex and reader
can easily understand
the text. Besides, reading
is source information to
make reader know all of
the things in the text. Finally, the fifth purpose of assessment is to provide
teachers with information on how instruction can be improved. By giving good
instruction, teachers are able to develop students’ reading performance.
