It is also important that teachers meet regularly to evaluate their plans and achievements in SBA, and to make adjustments if necessary. Each SBA coordinator could take responsibility for storing a collection of SBA sample recordings from every assessment round; keeping these for 4-5 years and looking at or listening to some older ones each year helps teachers to see they are making progress in improving the general standard of spoken English in their school. Teachers should also monitor and evaluate the effect, or washback, of the SBA on their teaching and on student learning more generally, so that they can make adjustments and improvements as SBA is implemented.

To view Prof Steve Andrews, SBA Project, The University of Hong Kong, talking about the importance of reflection and evaluation.

Click here to view SBA task evaluation checklist.

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