Initial Assessment Essay

Report on methods of initial assessment used by my organisation, within the college our students undertake assessments at different stages. The first one will be at the interview, where the subject tutor will check prediction for GCSE against the criteria needed for the course. During the interview process, the interviewer gets an idea as well on student’s verbal communication and motivation for the course. Then it will be an online initial assessment after the enrolment of the student, but usually few weeks before the start of the course. It tends to happen at the wrong time of the year in my opinion, students are asked to come during the summer after a stressful year with GCSE’s and usually come to college to do the online test in English …show more content…
Student 1 passed her English with D and got C in maths; she is very dyslexic and actually can’t read too much. She does memorise very well from listening in class but struggles in front of the paper. We have organised extra time with study support for reading lessons and have arranged a reader for paper tests. The latter has proven to work well as student 1 has passed straight away couple of test with me and as clearly a great understanding of the lessons she has been too but just couldn’t read the questions and was failing the tests just for that reason. “Perhaps the simplest thing to say is that dyslexia involves a distinctive balance of skills.” (Gilroy & Miles, 2001, p.1). By achieving a few tests, the student was given a boost and the learning is getting easier in class and her confidence has grown in the practical side of the course where she was getting lots of skills as most of the time it is repeating what was shown few minutes before by the lecturer either in the kitchen practice class, or in my lesson when making coffees or learning how to set up a table in the restaurant for