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Assessment
- is also standards-based as it seeks to ensure that teachers will teach to the standards and
students will aim to meet or even exceed the standards
Standards are statements of desired outcomes or expectations of what the students need to
know and be able to do.
Standards-based Assessment is the process of gathering information that indicates the
attainment of the standards set for quality learning.
Types of Assessment
1. Assessment for learning
Ongoing process that usually happens before during or after the teaching learning process
Primary purpose:
to support and enhance learning by adapting the educational process to meet the learner’s
needs
Learners are made aware of their strengths and weaknesses while being provided with
adequate support to overcome learning difficulties
Assessment is done to improve and ensure learning
It ensures that learning is going on while teacher is in the process of teaching
Teachers use assessment to inform or adjust their teaching
Recitation is one kind of assessment for learning
Formative assessment were used: pretest and post test
Formative assessment after lecture must not be graded but can only be recorded because they
can only be used to confirm whether the students learn something and not tells about the
overall knowledge of a Student.
Includes post diagnostic assessment and formative type of assessment.
2. Assessment as Learning
3. Assessment of learning
Grading purposes
Assessment of learner’s achievement
Primary purpose:
to support and enhance learning by adapting the educational process to meet the learner’s
needs
Learners are made aware of their strengths and weaknesses while being provided with
adequate support to overcome learning difficulties
Assessment is done to improve and ensure learning
It ensures that learning is going on while teacher is in the process of teaching
Teachers use assessment to inform or adjust their teaching
Summative assessment.
5. This is a type of Assessment which promotes self-reflection and metacognition among learners?
Assessment as Learning
6. Teacher M. determines his students' entry or prior knowledge about the topic. What type of
assessment is employed?
Assessment for learning
7. The test given at the end of an hour discussion is a form of summative assessment.
False
10. To further determine in which particular skills her pupils are weak, which test should teacher J
give?
Diagnostic
12. The result of the 10-item test given after teacher M's discussion of cell is included in the
computation of grades.
False