West Visayas State University

Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.School,
Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National Vocational High School, Janiuay High
School) Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894 *Telefax No:
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph *Email Address: janiuay@wvsu.edu.ph

Marcon, Raiza Medelin M. BEED 4-A

Field Study 1
Dr. Nilo L. Masbaño

ACTIVITY 7. Observing Assessment Practices of Teachers

Resource Teacher: ______________________ Teacher’s Signature: ____________
School: __________________________ Grade/Year Level: ______________
Subject Area: ___________________ Date: ____________
Observe:
Observe the assessment practices of your Resource Teacher and answer the following activity.
A. Assessment for Learning Practices
1. Observe what the teacher does or listen to what Teacher says to find out if the students understood
the lesson while teaching - learning in in process.
What Teacher Said Tally Total
1. Do you have any questions? IIII 4
2. Are you true? I 1
3. Can you understand? IIIII 5
4. Are you listening? IIIIIIIIII 10
5. Do you get what I mean? IIIIII 6
6. Are all good to you? IIIIIIII 8
7. Some more explanations? IIII 4
8. Very Good! IIIIIIIIIIII 12

2. Did the teacher ask the class "Did you understand? If she did, what was the class response?
Answer: Yes, the teacher always asks the students if they all understand the lesson.
3. Were the students given the opportunity to ask questions for clarification? How was this done?
Answer: Yes. They are asks if they understand the lesson through open-ended questions that let their
critical thinking and questioning skills applied for the clarity of the subject topic /lesson being taught
to them.
4. If she found out that her/his lesson was not clearly understood, what did teacher do? Did you observe
any of these activities? Please check.
____ Peer tutoring (Tutors were assigned by teacher to teach one or two classmates
____ Each- one-teach-one (Students paired with one another)
____ Teacher gave a Module for more exercises for lesson mastery
__/__ Teacher did re-teaching
Others, please specify ______________________________________________________

Give a summary of a day's whole lesson discussion for students to studied.

1. Why should a teacher find out if students understand the lesson while teaching is in progress?
Answer: A teacher should find out if students understand the lesson while teaching in progress so that
she can identify if the learners understand the lesson, and at the end of the lesson the teacher can
determine if his/her learning outcomes is achievable.
2. Should teacher record results of formative assessment for grading purposes? Why or why not?
Answer: No. because formative assessment is not intended for grading purposes.
3. Could an unreasonable number of failures at the end of the term/grading period be attributed to the
non-application of formative assessment? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes. When a teacher applied the formative assessment successfully, failure to achieve
learning and its objective at the end of the term/grading period can be avoided.
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Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.School,
Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National Vocational High School, Janiuay High
School) Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894 *Telefax No:
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B. Observing Assessment AS Learning Practices (Self-Assessment)

Find out practices that reflect assessment as learning. Record your observations.
Teacher My Observation
1. Did the teacher provide opportunities for the Yes. The teacher provides opportunities for the
learners to monitor and reflect on their own learners to monitor and reflect on their own
learning. learning.
2.What are the proofs that students were The proofs that students were engaged in self-
engaged in self – reflection, self – monitoring and reflection, self-monitoring and self-adjustments
self – adjustment? are student's reflect on their own understanding
through assessments given.
3. Did students record and report their own Yes. At the end of the lesson, through assessing
learning? their understanding they can determine their
own learnings and know their strengths through
self reflection and self-monitoring.
4. Did teacher create criteria with the students for Yes. To have a followed standards of what
tasks to be completed or skill to learned? students learned at a given period of time.

ANALYZE
1. If the student is at the heart of all assessment. then all assessment should support student learning.
Do you agree? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes. Assessment is the basis if students gain knowledge and understanding towards the
lesson being taught to them. Assessment is the collection of how students master the subject lesson,
remember and comprehend the discussions.
2. Does assessment as learning have the same ultimate purpose as assessment for learning?
Answer: Yes. Assessment as learning occurs when teachers use inferences about student progress to
inform their teaching, and assessment as learning occurs when students reflect on and monitor their
progress to inform their future learning goals. These two unite to achieve desired teaching and
learning process.
REFLECT
The primary purpose of assessment is not to measure but to further learning. Reflect on your personal
experiences of assessment in school. Were you given opportunities for self-assessment! if yes, what was
its impact on your learning?
Answer: It measures my gained knowledge towards the lesson, solidate and inform my strengths and
weaknesses towards my learnings. It also a way of developing my cognition in digesting ideas that
further help in my understanding.
C. Aligning Assessment Task with the Learning Outcome
ANALYZE
1. Is the assessment tasks aligned to the learning outcome?
Answer: Yes. There is an alignment of assessment tasks to the learning outcomes.

2. What are possible consequences if teacher's assessment tasks are not aligned to learning outcome/s?
Does this affect assessment results? How?

Answer: The possible consequences if teachers'assessment tasks are not aligned to learning
outcome/s are; the students motivation and learning are less effective, low score results since the
teaching and learning being discussed are not connecting.
Without the alignment between learning objectives and learning activities/assessments, students will
spend time on activities, assignments and assessments that do not lead to intended goals.
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3. Why should assessment tasks be aligned to the learning outcomes?

Answer: Ensuring that students understand not just how the assessment fits into their learning but
how all the practices and content being engaged with assists them in achieving success in the course.

REFLECT
Reflect on past assessments you have been through. Were they all aligned with what your teacher
taught (with learning outcomes?
Answer: Yes.

How did this affect your performance? As a future teacher, what lesson do you learn from this past
experience and from this observation?

Answer: It affects in my performance in a way of locating my assessment developments towards the

lessons being taught to me. It allows me to identify where I gain understanding and where I needed to
improved. I learned that for me achieved successful teaching and learning process alignment of
assessment and learning outcomes should be given importante.

ACTIVITY 8. Analyzing a Table of Specifications

A Table of Specification (TOS) is a two-way chart which describes the topics to be covered by a test and
the number of items or points which will be associated with each topic.
Sometimes the types of items are described in terms of cognitive level as well.
Borrow a sample of TOS from your resource teacher
2. Study the sample of Table of Specifications on Assessment.
Cognitive Level
Learning No. of Rem Un Ap An Ev Cr Total
Outcome Class
Hours/
Days
1.Describing 5 2 1 1 1 1 1 7
mixture
2. Describing the 2 2 2 2
appearance of
solutions
3Differentiating 1 1 3
solute from
solving.
4. Inferring that 1 1 1 1 2
not all solutes
dissolve in all
solvents
5. Factors 2 1 2 1 4
affecting the
Solubility of
Solutes in a
Solvent
6. Appearance 2 1 1 3 1 6
and Uses of
Suspension
7. Describing the 3 4 4
three phases of
matter
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8. Appearance 1 1 2 5
and Uses of
Colloids
9. Types of 1 2 1 1
Colloids
10. Describing 1 2 2
how to separate
mixtures
through picking
11. Describing 1 1 1 2
how to separate
mixtures
through sifting
or sieving
12. Describing 1 1 1 2
how to separate
mixtures
through
winnowing
13. Describing 1 1 2
how to separate
solid-liquid
mixtures
through filtering
14 Separating 1 1 1
mixtures
through funnel
15. Separating 1 1 2
mixtures
through magnet
16. Separating 1 1 1 2
mixtures
through
evaluation
17. Separating 1 1 1 1 3
mixtures
through
sedimentation

ANALYZE
1. What parts must a TOS contain to ensure test content validity?
Answer: To ensure test content validity, the parts must it have is the objectives/learning outcomes.
3. With OBE in mind, is it correct to put learning outcome not topic in the first column? Why or why not?
Answer: No. I think it is important to put in the first place the learning outcomes so that the flow of
information is easily identified considering that it is the basis in the giving tests on the different
cognitive level.
4. Can a teacher have a test with content validity even without making a TOS?
Answer: Yes. But lack reliability
5. Complete the given TOS.

REFLECT
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Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.School,
Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National Vocational High School, Janiuay High
School) Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894 *Telefax No:
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Read this conversation and reflect on teachers’ assessment practices. Write your reflections here.
Student A: Saan naman pinulot ni Teacher ang kaniyang tanong? Niisang tanong sa tinuro, wala! (Where
did Teacher get her test? Not one of what she taught came out!)
Student B: Oo nga.! Nakakaiinis! (You are right! How annoying!")
Did you have a similar experience? Reflect on it. Will the required use of Table of Specifications as guide
in test construction solve the problem of misaligned tests?
Answer. Yes. When I am in my Senior High School years of study.
Yes. The required use of Table of Specifications is a guide in the misalignment of tests construction
because it develop a content validity based on the objectives. The tests are planned and balanced
based on the different cognitive level.

ACTIVITY 9. Computing Student’s Grades based on DepEd Grading System

Resource Teacher: ______________________
School: __________________________ Grade/Year Level: ______________
Subject Area: ___________________ Date: ____________

REVISIT the Learning Essentials

With the implementation of the Enhanced Basic Education Program of 2013, more popularly known as
the K to 12 Curriculum, came a new grading system of the Department of Education. Refer to Appendix
A for more details.
The latest grading system in basic education includes students’ performance in written tests and
performance tasks, with emphasis on the latter. The quarterly exam may be a combination of written
test and performance task.
OBSERVE
A. Sample Students' Report Card
1. Secure a sample of Students' Report Card from your resource teacher.
2. Study a sample of an unused Student's Report Card. Observe its contents.
3. Ask permission from the Teacher for an interview with him/her regarding the new grading system.
B. Interview of DepEd Teacher
1. What are the new features of the latest grading system? What things are you required to do with this
new grading system which you were not asked before?
Answer: According to the interviewee, which the resource teacher, all grades will be based on the
weighted raw score of the learners summative assessments. It minimizes misclarification of students
on the basis of the marks. Students will have a clearer picture of where they stand in their academic
progress because there is a standards based rubric and feedback.

2. Which do you prefer - the old or the new grading system? Why?
Answer: For the Resource Teacher, she preferred the new grading system because it is easily usable
and not a waste of time.
C. Review of DepEd Order # 8, s. 2015
Read DepEd Order #8 s. 2015. You can research it in the internet
Based on DepEd Order 8, s. 2015, answer the following:
1. What are the bases for grading?
Answer:All grades will be based on the weighted raw score of the learners summative assessments.
There is minimum grade needed to pass a specific learning areas.

2. How do you compute grades per quarter for Grades 1 to 10 and Grades 11 to 12. Give an example.
Answer: In a grading period, there is one Quarterly Assessment but there should be instances for
students to produce written work and to demonstrate what what they know and can do through
performance tasks.
3. How do you compute grades at the end of the school year?
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Answer: For Grades 1-10 the average of the Quarterly Grades (QG) produces the Final Grade . The
General Average is computed by dividing the sum of all final grades by the total number of learning
areas. Each learning area has equal weight. The Final Grade in each learning area and the General
Average are reported as whole numbers.
4. What descriptors and grading scale are used in reporting progress of learners?
Answer: The Descriptors and the Grading scale are as follows:
Descriptor Grading Scale
Outstanding 90-100
Very Satisfactory 85-89
Satisfactory 80-84
Fairly Satisfactory 75-79
Did Not Meet Expectations Below 75

5. What are the bases for learners' promotion and retention at the end of the school year?
Answer: The bases for learners promotion is when the students get higher grade after computing the
overall of her grades from first to last quarter, but, if he/she has did not meet the expectations he/she
must retained.
For Grades 4-10 Learners
Requirements Decisions
Final Grade of at least 75 in all learning areas Promoted to the next grade level
Did Not Meet Expectations in not more than two Must pass remedial classes for learning areas
learning areas. with failing mark to be promoted to the next
grade level. Otherwise the learner is retained in
the same grade level.
Did Not Meet Expectations in three or more Retained in the same grade level
learning areas
Must pass all learning areas in the Elementary Earn the Elementary Certificate
Promoted to Junior High School

6. What is the report on learners' observed values?

Answer: The report on learners observed values will depend on the behavior of every students inside
and outside the classroom having the core values Maka-diyos, Makatao, Makakalikasan and Maka-
bansa.

E. Grade Computation
Show sample computations of a grade:
in a subject of your choice from Grades 1 to 6 (if you are a future elementary teacher)
in your specialization if you are a high school teacher)
Show the percentage contributions of written work, performance tasks and quarterly assessment. Then
give the descriptor. Refer to DepEd Order # 8, s. 2015.
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Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.School,
Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National Vocational High School, Janiuay High
School) Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894 *Telefax No:
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph *Email Address: janiuay@wvsu.edu.ph
 West Visayas State University
Janiuay Campus
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.School,
Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National Vocational High School, Janiuay High
School) Janiuay, Iloilo, Philippines*Trunkline: (063) (033) 317-1894 *Telefax No:
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph *Email Address: janiuay@wvsu.edu.ph

OBSERVE
Analyze data and information gathered from the interview and from your review of an unused Student’s
Report Card and the DepEd grading system.
1. Do teachers like the new grading system? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes. Teachers can easily compute the grade through the three components of grading.
Encoding of outputs is easy and it focuses on the performance of the students.
2. What are the good points of the new grading system according to teachers?
Answer: It will facilitate joyful and stress free learning, It provides learners with more flexibility and
lead to a focus on a better learning environment.
3. What are teachers challenged to do by this new grading system?
Answer: The skills of students are not tested equally. Classwork, assessments, homeworks and
projects are all being submitted to teachers online, but digital work presents new challenges, and
grading is taking much longer online than with hard copies.
4. Do you favor the distribution of percentages of written work, performance tasks and quarterly
assessment?
Answer: Yes. I am in favor.
5. Did you like the experience of computing grades? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes. because it is very easy and simple.