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MEASUREMENT,
ASSESSMENT
AND
EVALUATION
Measurement • The process of determining or
describing the attributes or
characteristics of physical
objects, generally in terms of
quality

• To measure is to apply standard

measuring device

• For instance , knowledge of the

subject matter is often measure
through standardized test.
(testing)
1. Objective (testing) – are more
stable than subjective
Types of
measurements in the sense Measurement
that repeated measurements
of the same quantity or quality
of interest will produce more
or less the same outcome

2. Subjective (perception) –
example aesthetic appeal of a
product
 Measurement of Quantity or
Underlying Quality of Interest = True Value
Principle in plus Random Error
Educational
Measurement
Each measurement of the
quantity of interest has two
components:

• True value

• Random error
 Measuring indicators, Variables and 5

Factors
• An education variable (denoted by an English alphabet like X) is a measurable characteristic
of a student
Example:
x = age or x = height
• An indicator , I, denotes the presence or absence of a measured characteristics
Example:
I = 1, if the characteristic is present
= 0, if the characteristic is absent
 Variable 6

• Indicators are building blocks of

educational measurements upon
which all measurements are built.
• A group of indicators constitute a
variable
 Example 7

X1 = computational skills These variables can be grouped

as follows:
X2 = reading skills
Group 1 (X1, X4, X5) –
X3 = vocabulary mathematical ability

X4 = logic and reason Group 2 (X2 , X3) – language

ability
X5 = sequence and series
Group 3 (X6) – psychomotor
X6 = manual dexterity ability
 Example 8

X1 = computational skills
X2 = reading skills
X3 = vocabulary
X4 = logic and reason
X5 = sequence and series
X6 = manual dexterity
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Latin word assidere The process of
which means “to sit gathering evidences of
students’ performance
beside” (Wiggins, over a period of time to
determine learning
1993) and mastery of skills.
Evidences of • Dialogue record
Learning
• Journals

• Written works

• Portfolio

• Test

• Other learning task

 Goal of
Assessment • Improve student learning and
provide students, parents and
teachers with relievable
information regarding students
progress and extent of
attainment of the expected
learning outcome
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From the root word “value” and so
when we evaluate we expect our The process designed
process to give information to provide
regarding the worth, information that will
appropriateness, goodness, validity help us make a
or legality of something for which a judgement about a
reliable measurement has been particular situation.
made
 SUMMARY 13

We measure : height, weight, distance

We assess: learning outcome
We evaluate: results in terms of some
criteria or objectives
ASSESSMENT FOR, OF and AS LEARNING 14
 Assessment
FOR Learning
• Implies that assessment is done
to improve and ensure learning.
This referred to as FORmative
assessment, assessment that is
given while the teacher is in the
process of student formation.
Assessment
OF Learning
• Given at the end of a unit,
grading period or a term like a
semester. It is meant to assess
learning for grading purposes.
Assessment
AS Learning
• Associated with self-assessment.
As the term implies by itself is
already a form of learning for the
students.