POLICY GUIDELINES ON

CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT FOR THE

K TO 12 BASIC EDUCATION
PROGRAM(BEP)
DEPED ORDER NO.8, S.2015
LEGAL BASIS

 DepEd Order # 8, s. 2015

 Policy Guidelines on Classroom Ass

K to 12 Basic Education Program
• Effective SY 2015-2016 the Policy Guidelines on Classroom
Assessment shall be implemented in public elementary and
secondary schools nationwide.

• Non-DepEd schools are encouraged to implement these type

of policy guidelines as well. However, they are permitted to
modify these policy guidelines according to their Philosophy,
Vision, and Mission with the approval of the appropriate
DepEd Regional Office
 Classroom Assessment is an integral part of curriculum
implementation. It allows the teachers to track and measure
learners’ progress and to adjust instruction accordingly. Classroom
assessment informs the learners, as well as their parents and
guardians, of their progress.

 Special programs may further issue supplementary guidelines in

relation to the program’s specific assessment concerns.
 THESE GUIDELINES WILL REMAIN IN FORCE AND
IN EFFECT FOR THE DURATION OF THE
PROGRAM, UNLESS SOONER REPEALED,
AMENDED, OR RESCINDED. ALL EXISTING
ORDERS AND MEMORANDA THAT ARE
INCONSISTENT WITH THIS ORDER ARE
RESCINDED.
IMMEDIATE DISSEMINATION OF AND STRICT
COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ORDER IS DIRECTED.
IN LINE WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
ENHANCED BASIC EDUCATION ACT OF 2013
(REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10533), THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION IS ADOPTING THE ENCLOSED POLICY
GUIDELINES ON CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT FOR THE
K TO 12 BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM.
WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AND AMONG CURRICULUM
STANDARDS, COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSIONS AND KPUP?
Curriculum Levels of Assessment Cognitive Process Dimensions
Standards (DO 73, s. 2012
Content Knowledge Remembering
Standards 1. “What should students know?” The learner can identify,
“What should the learners retrieve, recognize,
know”? duplicate, list , memorize,
repeat, reproduce

Performance 2. “How are they to express or provide Understanding

Standard evidence of what they know?

“What can learners do with

Applying
what they know?” The learner can execute,
implement, demonstrate,
dramatize, interpret, solve,
use, illustrate, convert,
discover.