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Lesson 4
Lesson 4
OF LEARNING 2
LESSON 4:
AFFECTIVE ASSESSMENT
OBJECTIVES
In this lesson you are expected to:
Assessment on the affective domain is not only on the part of teachers to know
information about students.
AFFECTIVE ASSESSMENT
Unlike cognitive and psychomotor assessment, affective
assessment does not determine the grades the student gets. It
rather helps teachers determine what steps need to be taken to
help students achieve academic success. Affective assessment
can provide supplemental information about learning difficulty
or behavior problems that affect learning.
ESSENTIALS OF ASSESSING
AFFECTIVE TRAITS AND SKILLS:
The following are some good reasons for setting and assessing affective traits:
TRAITS DESCRIPTION
TRAITS DESCRIPTION
TRAITS DESCRIPTION
TRAITS DESCRIPTION
C. Interest
Interest is a psychological state that draws a person's attention to
an object, idea or event. In a classroom setting. It is what students
are "into" or the learner's disposition about the subject/topic,
such as reading, science, mathematics etc.
IMPORTANT AFFECTIVE TRAITS AND
LEARNING COMPETENCIES:
D. motivation
Brown (1987) defines motivation as an inner drive, impulse,
emotion, or desire that moves one to a particular action.
Motivation has other intrinsic factors like curiosity, appreciation,
valuing for learning, as well as extrinsic factors like praise, grades
for completion, certification, etc.
AUSUBEL (1968) IDENTIFIED SIX NEEDS AND DESIRES THAT
ARE INTEGRAL PARTS OF MOTIVATION:
STRONGLY SLIGHTLY
AGREE DISAGREE AGREE
AGREE AGREE
1. Select the affective trait you want to assess which you find relevant to
teaching-learning situation. Make sure that you or your school is going to
benefit from it and use the data to improve the present situation.
2. Construct items that are clear, definite, and focused on the trait you
want to measure. Consider the different levels of affective taxonomy in
constructing the items.
STEPS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RATING SCALE
3. Pilot test or field try the inventory and revise the parts that appear to be unclear.
The purpose of field testing the instrument is to detect unclear questions and
statements It is preferred that the field test be given to a comparable set of
students. If for grade 6 students the be given to all sections of grade 6 students.
b. Semantic Differential
This is a widely used scale that employs ratings of concepts with
contrasting adjectives placed at opposite ends of the number scale.
Example:
self-report inventories use a variety of formats.
The most common are:
c. Checklist
A checklist is a form of self-report that asks persons to indicate
whether they demonstrate a set of qualities or behaviors.
For affective assessment, it is a tool; for identifying the presence or
absence of a feeling, attitude, or behavior.
The behaviors that are checked will reflect what values and beliefs
learners hold.
An example of a self-report behavior
Checklist
An example of a self-report behavior
Checklist
2. INTERVIEW
This is an oral assessment of student learning that is conducted
through spoken words and casual conversation. This assessment
tools allowed the teacher to collect and explore more in-depth
information about the trait being assess that cannot be captured by
written instrument not even be observed. The students can be
qualify and expand their previous answers, which can be vague at the
earlier part of the conversation.