ABSTRACT
Clearly, assessment is a popular topic encountered in publications, workshops and inservices, college training courses, and discussions in the teacher’s lunchroom. Why is there a sudden interest in assessment strategies? The interest in multiple intelligences, new research and discoveries on how the brain learns a language, and new technologies (such as the Internet) now available in many classrooms, have forced us to reevaluate and often to modify our teaching methods. Especially influential is the emphasis on relevance, which acknowledges the effect context has on performance, and which leads us to want assessment strategies that reflect this new emphasis.
