Learning individual’s development as function of productive assessment

Abstract

The paper provides arguments in favor of transforming current assessment instruments in compliance with the methodology and social demand reflected in the goal of foreign language teaching at non-linguistics universities, where the primary object to guide and assess should be flexible educational environment in progress. In that way, intercultural foreign language professional communicative competence proves to be both a tool for providing the necessary educational context and a goal to achieve by means of fostering the context produced. The research is aimed at creating for the productive assessment strategy based on several educational instruments, with a focus on Foreign Language Profile of Profession, which provides a common framework that is context-free and context-relevant at the same time. Due to such methods of research as prognostic simulation and experimental teaching-and-learning the authors collected data connected with the system of evaluating students’ progress by means of productive assessment. The research results indicate the high importance of the above change of a student’s status in pedagogical guidance due to the corresponding shift in assessment procedures, which now acquire a new function – that of a learning individual’s personal, social and vocational development. Therefore, pedagogical guidance as a form of collective interaction is also seen as a totally new phenomenon evolving into a learning individual’s psychological function.