A teacher gives a test to her students at the end of a unit of instruction on the past simple tense. The students need to fill in the correct verb form in each sentence. For each correct sentence, they receive a point, and their score is the total of the correct sentences. The teacher interprets the students' scores as indicators of how well they have understood the structures and contexts of the past simple tense. Based on the interpretation, she decides to instruct on aspects of simple past tense that students do not fully grasp and explain questions that are commonly answered incorrectly.

Assessment Task: fill in the correct verb form w/ past simple tense.

Sts performance: give correct verb forms

—> assessment record: number of points collected from correct answers

—> Intepretation: sts’ mastery of the tense in the unit

—> Decisions:

Teacher: have sts review the incorrect verbs

Sts: review the incorrect form verbs (past simple)

—> Consequence:

Sts will understand the usage of past simple