Evaluation strategies to assess english writing skills for ninth year High School at Alfonso Laso Bermeo in Quito during the first term 2008-2009

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to design an integrated evaluation to the learning process in order to improve the real practices of the education with a qualitative test of what the student writes; establishing different levels and evaluation grades, as well as approaches to establish categories of evaluation. Due to a changing world it is important to review the educational curricular contents constantly in order to detect if the contents, skills and values are developed in the students. Besides we must be sure if the students are competent to face their real life. The curriculum has been orientated to the assignments that are based on the memory; thus, today it is essential to make a change. Therefore, this research project was carried out to be adapted in the classroom evaluation strategies to assess writing skills which will be applied in detail furthermore in Alfonso Laso Bermeo High School. The population was constituted by the following strata: 30 students of ninth A and B level. Based on a holistic focus the results of the investigation show that the current curriculum is orientated to evaluate not in a traditional way, but taking into consideration evaluation by competences, that is, using instruments focused on competence evaluation. This research project will help students to solve real problems successfully. The competence is orientated from the simple to the complex way, which gave us good results at the end of the project.