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    The document discusses the purposes of assessing learners, which include monitoring learners' progress, providing evidence of progress to motivate learners, and allowing teachers to evaluate their own performance and plan future work. There are four main roles of assessment: placement determines students' starting points; formative evaluates progress during instruction; diagnostic identifies weaknesses; and summative evaluates learning at the end. Assessment can be for learning during instruction, of learning to measure achievement, or as learning where students guide their own progress.

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    The document discusses the purposes of assessing learners, which include monitoring learners' progress, providing evidence of progress to motivate learners, and allowing teachers to evaluate their own performance and plan future work. There are four main roles of assessment: placement determines students' starting points; formative evaluates progress during instruction; diagnostic identifies weaknesses; and summative evaluates learning at the end. Assessment can be for learning during instruction, of learning to measure achievement, or as learning where students guide their own progress.

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    Chapter 1

    Lesson 2
    Why Assess Learners?
    To monitor and aid learners’ progress

    • A teacher needs to be constantly aware of what


    the learners know, what difficulties they are
    experiencing and how best to help them.
    To provide learner with evidence of their progress
    and enhance motivation

    • Assessment results give learners tangible evidence of


    their progress.
    • Achieving short-term goals can boost learners’
    motivation and encourage them to persist help
    learners focus on areas they need more work.
    To monitor your performance and plan your future
    work

    • Information can help you evaluate your own work.


    • Finding out how effective you have been and how
    successful your chosen method and materials were.
    • You are able to plan & modify aspects of your
    teaching.
    To provide information for parents, colleagues and
    school authorities

    • Teachers benefit when assessment results are


    kept by the school and passed on
    • Assessment results are seen as evidence of
    teacher’s effectiveness
    a. Placement Role
    - focuses on determining where the students are
    - used to determine student’s performance at the beginning
    of instruction
    - the goal is to determine the mode of evaluation that is most
    beneficial for each student
    b. Formative Role
    - assessment during the course of instruction rather than
    after it is completed
    - focuses on the comparison of the instructional outcome
    with that of the preset standard
    c. Diagnostic Role
    - aims to determine the specific learning needs of students
    so that those needs can be met through regular or remedial
    instruction
    - used to determine students’ weaknesses
    d. Summative Role
    - used to determine the mastery at the end of the course
    - the process of making overall assessment or decision
    about the program
    - used to determine the achievement at the end of instruction
    Where the students are,
    If instructional
    or what they already
    objectives are achieved
    know
    (FORMATIVE)
    (PLACEMENT)

    Assessment
    is used to
    determine:

    If students master the


    Students’ weaknesses objectives of the lesson
    for remedial instruction with the purpose of
    (DIAGNOSTIC) giving grades
    (SUMMATIVE)
    Assessment for Learning
    - more commonly known as formative & diagnostic
    assessments
    - the use of a task or an activity for the purpose of
    determining student progress during a unit or block of
    instruction
    Assessment of Learning
    - the use of a task or an activity to measure, record and
    report on a student's level of achievement in regards to
    specific learning expectations
    - often known as summative assessments
    Assessment as Learning
    - the use of a task or an activity to allow students the
    opportunity to use assessment to further their own learning
    - these tasks offer students the chance to set their own
    personal goals and advocate for their own learning

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