LASTRA, JAY MARK F.

-Task #3

1. To measure or to learn; that is the question. Broadfoot(1996)

-Teachers use the tests to assess the quantity and accuracy of student work, and
the bulk of teacher effort in assessment is taken up in marking and grading. A strong
emphasis is placed on comparing students, and feedback to students comes in the form
of marks or grades with little direction or advice for improvement. These kinds of testing
events indicate which students are doing well and which ones are doing poorly.
Typically, they don’t give much indication of mastery of particular ideas or concepts
because the test content is generally too limited and the scoring is too simplistic to
represent the broad range of skills and knowledge that has been covered.
2. When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative; when the guest taste the soup, the
summative.- Robert Stake

-It says that - In formative, the teachers allows to monitor each student’s learning
progress, and to reflect on and adjust their teaching program as necessary; informs
decisions about adapting instruction to meet the needs of individual students. On the
other hand it means that the summative allows teachers to measure student learning
and to determine the effectiveness of their teaching program.
3. In reality, it is through classroom assessment that attitudes, skills, knowledge and
thinking are fostered, nurtured and accelerated- or stifled.- Hynes (1991)

- We live in a world in which teaching is considered a necessary foundation for life and
people all over the globe recognise that learning is fundamental. The purpose of this analysis
shall to be to evaluate the importance of assessment as an integral part of teaching or learning.
Assessment is an essential components of teaching and learning. Without an effective
assessment program it is impossible to know whether students have learned, whether teaching
has been effective, or how best to address student learning needs. The quality of the
assessment in the educational process has a profound and well-established link to student
performance.

4. Self-assessmentis at the heart of the matter.

-Self-assessment is the involvement of students in identifying standards and/or criteria to

apply to their work and making judgements about the extent to which they have met these
criteria and standards. Self-assessment is essential for progress as a learner: for understanding
ourselves as learners, for an increasingly complex understanding of tasks and learning goals,
and for strategic knowledge of how to go about improving.