Let’s Talk About Assessment... On Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Supportive Assessment

In pedagogical discourses devoted to school education, the issue of assessment has been present for a long time, and recently the considerations in this area have focused on school assessment supporting the comprehensive development of the student. According to the commonly accepted definition, quoted by many sources, school assessment, as a process, consists of two stages. The first is the valuation of educational achievements of learning, and the second is the communication of the obtained results to the student. The first part of this article recalls the functions and theoretical aspects of constructing supportive assessment. The second part presents an innovative proposal for contemporary pedagogical practice - a model of language communication that offers opportunities for communicating assessments of a supportive nature.