SUMMARY OF TOPICS/CONTENTS

What is Affective Learning Competencies?

Specific generic affective competencies are those skills, knowledge, and attitudes
which are important for a teacher's successful dealing with affective domain behaviors of
exceptional students. These skills are used for teaching new behavior, establishing
relationships, and setting behavioral limits. Affective competencies are related to student
learning in the areas of:
(1) motivating
(2) rewarding for correct responses and adaptive behavior
(3) involving students' interest and attention in learning activities and school
(4) managing crisis behaviors
(5) perceiving needs and experiences which students exhibit during learning and
socialization activities
(6) demonstrating or modeling optional ways of responding to stress and solving problems.

What is Development of Affective Assessment Tools?

The relevance of affective targets, attitude traits and how these concepts are related
to student learning were discussed in the preceding chapter. Assessment of the affective
domain is one of the requirements of the 21st teaching-learning proposition. A holistic
approach is required so as to have a meaningful evaluation of student learning. Both the
traditional and authentic assessment tools are to be utilized to come up with good and
quality results. There are various instruments or tools that can be used but each has its own
focus and each instrument is designed to cater to a specific purpose. In this chapter are the
various methods and assessment tools that can be used to assess affective domain of
learners. Samples are provided to help you craft your own affective assessment tools.

What Is Nature of Portfolio Assessment?

The primary purpose of an assessment portfolio is to document student learning on specific
curriculum outcomes. As such, the items in the portfolio must be designed to elicit the
knowledge and skill specified in the outcomes.
What is Utilization of Information?
At the heart of any plan for improving assessment is the goal of
obtaining information about what students have and have not learned that can be used to
help them improve their learning, to guide their teachers, and to support others who make
decisions about their education.

What is Product-Oriented Performance-Based Assessment?

Product oriented assessment is a kind of assessment where in the assessor views and scores
the final product made and not on the actual performance of making that product. It is also
a Product assessment  which focuses on evaluating the result or outcome of a process.

SUMMARY OF LEARNING
I learned that in assessing students we have to Student assessment enables instructors to
measure the effectiveness of their teaching by linking student performance to
specific learning objectives. As a result, teachers are able to institutionalize effective
teaching choices and revise ineffective ones in their pedagogy.