Investigating assessment tools used for learning in sunrise textbook in high schools of Sulaimani City

الملخص EN

This paper is an extract from an MA thesis entitled “Investigating Assessment Tools Used for Learning in Sunrise Textbook in High Schools of Sulaimani City” that tackles the assessment tools in high schools.

Assessment is generally defined as a tool that is used by teachers to collect information on students for the purpose of judging, appraising and deciding on students’ level.

Assessment underwent a lot of changes for many decades; therefore, our teacher should go with the changes that happened to assessment.

The textbook that is studied in high school is Sunrise which is based on communicative language teaching.

Each oral activity aims at preparing students to use the language in communication.

It concentrates on both reception and production skills and more than half of the activities concentrate on oral skill: listening and speaking.

The problem arises from the fact that the instructions of the Ministry of Education is in such a way that divided the marks for the items in the textbook just for written format test.

The thesis targets high school supervisors and teacher at various schools of West Directorate of Education (Rozhawa).

To reach the aim of the study, the researcher relies on questionnaire based on data collection.

The main questions of this study are whether teachers face problem in assessing and whether the map of Sunrise is covered in the test.

It should be remembered that the relationship between Ministry of Education’s instruction and its effect on the tools of assessment by teacher is the main target of current study as teachers are the main element of assessment.

The questionnaire is prepared in two versions: one for the high school supervisors, and the other for high school teachers.

The findings of the study shows that the assessment tools that are used by the teacher lack many useful tools, and they confront problems in understanding and interpreting assessment tools and types, moreover, the concentration of teachers are only on written form.

The Ministry of Education does not supply enough instructions regarding assessment tools and the mark distributions are not fairly given to the skills.

Teachers and students do not pay much attention to the oral activities in Sunrise so students do not acquire language skills properly.