Assessment in Learning 1

To better understand assessment, let us define important items related to it.

What is a test?

 An instrument designed to measure any characteristic, quality, ability, knowledge or skill

 It comprised of items in the area it is designed to measure

What is a measurement?

 A process of quantifying the degree to which someone possesses a given trait, i.e. quality of
characteristics or feature
 Assigning of numbers to performance, product, skill or behavior of a student, based on a pre-
determined procedure or set of criteria
 Assigning of numbers to the results of a test or other type of assessment
 Awarding points for a particular aspect of an essay or performance

What is assessment?

Assessment can be defined both as product and a process.

Assessment as a product

 It refers to the instrument that is designed to elicit a predetermined behavior, unique

performance, or a product from a student

Assessment as a process

 Collection, interpretation and use of qualitative and quantitative information to assist teachers
in their educational decision-making

Hence, assessment is a pre-requisite to evaluation. It provides the information which enables evaluation
to take place

What is evaluation?

 A process of making judgments about the quality of a performance, product, skill or behavior of
a student. It includes using some basis to judge worth or value. It involves judgment about the
desirability or changes in the students.

ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING ASSESSMENT AS LEARNING

 Includes 3 types of
assessment done before
and during instruction
1. Placement
2. Formative
 This is done after  This done for teachers to
instruction. understand their role of
1. Summative assessing for and of
learning
1. Teachers should
 3. Diagnostic undergo trainings.

ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING

1. Placement- done prior to instruction

 Its purpose is to assess the needs of the learners to have basis in planning for a
relevant instruction.
 The results of this assessment place students in specific learning groups to facilitate
teaching and learning
2. Formative
 Done during instruction
 It is the assessment where teachers continuously monitor the student’s level of
attainment of the learning objectives
 The results of this assessment are communicated clearly and promptly to the
students for them to know their strengths and weaknesses and the progress of their
learning
3. Diagnostic
 Done during instruction
 This is used to determine student’s recurring or persistent difficulties
 It searches for the underlying causes of student’s learning problems that do not
respond to first aid treatment
 It helps formulate a plan for detailed REMEDIAL INSTRUCTION

Assessment of Learning

1. Summative Assessment
 This Is done after instruction
 It is used to certify what students know and can do and level of their proficiency or
competence
 Its results reveal whether or not instructions have successfully achieved the curriculum
outcomes
 The information from assessment of learning is usually expressed as marks or letter
grade
 The results of which are communicated to the students, parents and other stakeholders
of decision making
 It is also a powerful factor that could have pave the way for educational reforms

Assessment AS Learning

 This is done for teachers to understand and perform well their role of assessing FOR and
OF learning
 It requires teachers to undergo training on how to assess learning and be equipped with
the following competencies needed in performing their work as assessors
 PLACEMENT SUMMATIVE FORMATIVE DIAGNOSTIC
 Done before  Done after  Reinforces  Determine
instruction instruction successful recurring or
 Determines the  Certifies mastery learning persistent
mastery of pre of the intended  Provides difficulties
requisite skills learning continuous searches for the
 Not graded outcomes feedback to both underlying causes
 Graded students and of these
Ex: quarter teachers problems that do
exams, unit or concerning not respond to
chapter tests, learning success first aid
final exams and failures treatment
 Not graded  Helps formulate a
 Ex: short quizzes, plan for a
recitation detailed remedial
instruction