10 Assessment Scriptures
10 Assessment Scriptures
10 Assessment Scriptures
Nothing we do to, or for our students is more important
than our assessment of their work and the feedback we give them on it. The
results of our assessment influence students for the rest of their lives (Race,
2005). According to Washtenaw Community College (2015) assessment is the
systematic collection, review, and use of information to increase students'
learning and development. Through a variety of measures, students are assessed
to determine whether or not they are achieving the learning outcomes that
faculty have determined for their courses and programs.
Assessment helps most specially the teachers to be able
to know if they are teaching what they are supposed to teach, to know what are
the strengths and weaknesses of the learner and also to help the teachers to
know how they will supposed to teach for them to be an effective teacher in the
field cited by (Edutophia, 2008). Assessment is a very crucial role to the part
of the teachers it’s because all the decisions that the teacher will make; on
how the teacher will teach and care the learner will vary with the kind of
assessment the teachers will utilize (Morrison, 2010). To have an effective
teaching and learning process here are the 10 Assessment Scriptures that can
help the teachers to utilize appropriate and reliable assessment;
Secrets unfold
In assessment, transparency is necessary for assessing
students because Information that will be gathered in assessment will be more
meaningful and understandable when it is contextualized and a touch to its
goals for student learning ( Jankowski, 2013)and not hidden to them.
Student must know what is included or excluded in the
test, the criteria prior to the assessment and the strategies and formats in
assessment.
Create Time Intervals
Adequate time opportunities for all students are needed
in a fair assessment.
Assessment has a vital role to play in measuring and
evaluating student learning and achievement, the continued reliance on one‐time testing diverts
attention away from content and the substance of what is being taught. And as a
result students became not prepared in engaging the assessment that is offered
for them.
In common with other assessment purposes, an assessment
must have the quality of having the resources required to provide it –
teachers’ time, expertise and cost, and pupils’ learning time – should be
commensurate with the value of the information for its users.(Harlen, 2003).
Remember early prerequisite pointers
A good communication of pointers leads to a fair
assessment success.
Pointers help educators to determine the student skill
gaps. It works on mapping the coverage of the assessment to uncover the
prerequisite skills students don’t have.
by this information, an individual generates learning plan, saving teachers time and
giving every student resources for learning more.
Irrelevant assessment we don’t need
Academic assessment should assess both knowledge and
skills. When formulating an assessment
tasks, it is important that it the activity will suit the skills you want the
student to develop. In addition, they
should set an objectives that will say ‘real purpose’ behind the task and that
there is a sense of a ‘real audience’ in relevance.(Queen’s University Belfast,
2015).
Provide clear assessment instruction
In assessment there should
be an alignment between assessment instructions and learning experiences of the
students in their given learning tasks. student
must understand the assessment process
facilitated by clear explanations of the assessment tasks and how the
assessment tasks relates to the learning outcomes, the criteria and the set
standards which students will be
assessed.(allen, p. et. Al. (2007) cited by Cordiner (2011).
Thou shall not be Bias
When you conduct an
assessment to your pupils you should avoid Bias, Educational tests are
considered biased if a test design, or the way results are interpreted and
used, systematically disadvantages certain groups of students over others, such
as students of color, students from lower-income backgrounds, students who are
not proficient in the English language, or students who are not fluent in
certain cultural customs and traditions (Abbott, 2014). According to O’Niel, sometimes
we are not aware that we are bias because there are times that these bias are
hidden but sometimes obvious and sometimes we do not know what are these bias. There
are two forms of Bias;
Offensiveness – happens if the test
takers get distressed, upset or distracted about how an individual or a
particular group is portrayed in the test and;
Unfair Penalization – harm students’ performance
due to the test content not because items are offensive but, rather, the
content caters to some particular groups from the same economy.
In order
for your assessment to be credible and reliable you should make an assessment
that is not bias.
Understanding and vocabulary of the pupils we shall
consider
We should make a test
that is appropriate to the level of understanding and vocabulary of the pupils,
make sure that the questions and instructions are understandable and answerable
to the capacity that learner can give (Stahl & Bravo, 2010).
There are many instances that the learners has a wide
range of learning in the said subject matter but the learner cannot understand
the questions written in the test, how can the learner measure his/her capacity
if the assessment is not reliable and credible and how can the teacher measure
the true outcome and performance of the learner in that situation. So imagine
how the learning of the pupil was wasted by an unappropriate assessment. So in every
assessment that we will conduct we should use only appropriate words that they
can understand for it – the learning of the learner, not to be wasted
(Assessment tools & Strategies, 2012)
Restore who are in need
Teaching diverse
student population is a very big challenge for the teachers because we cannot
deny the fact that there is 1 or more pupil in every classroom that has special
needs or shall we say needs special attention. Teachers should consider the capability
of the learner in order to measure appropriate learning outcome of the said
learner (Luke & Schwartz, 2010). So these are some recommendations on how the
teacher will accommodate the learners who has special needs:
· Presentation – repeat
directions, read-aloud, use large prints.
· Response – mark
answers in the test booklet, permits responses by a digital recorder or
computer, use reference materials like dictionary.
·
Timing
–
give an extended time, frequent breaks, and unlimited time.
·
Scheduling – give
a specific time and day, subtest in different order, administer test in several
time sections.
·
Others
–
special test preparation techniques and out of level test.
By these teachers can now assess the learners with
special needs appropriately and measuring there learning outcomes and academic
performance with credibility and reliability.
Effective and reliable assessment tools must be
used
The primary purpose
of assessment is to improve student learning (Growing Success, 2010). If this
is so, then we may do extending our capacities in calculating the scores which
the pupils have achieved or the grade alone, but by waiting them learn to love
learning for better, effective and reliable assessment.
The use of effective and reliable assessment brings about
motivation in the teaching-learning process. Thus, the learners feel more
interested in assessing themselves.
“ to nurture healthy motivation, it is important to have
an effective assessment” (Banta, Jones & Black, 2009)
Stop Stereotyping
Stereotyping is not limited to those who are biased. We all
are stereotypes all the time. They are a kind of mental shortcuts (Murphy,
2012). Stereotyping has been crucial to our community, adding some odds of my
more like a crab mentality or dragging someone down. We may be stereotyping at
times, but we can prevent it through looking at the positive side and being an
optimistic one. Though, this kind of mentality still causes some troubles. According
to Can We Prevent Stereotypes (2014), we should learn to recognize and avoid
generalizations. People usually jumps to conclusion without seeing the problems
themselves, thus making generalizations which are wrong and perceive as
mistakes.
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RELEVANCE OF ASSESSMENT TO INDUSTRY
Education
brings great benefits to mankind, it"s society’s primary needs. It’s a great
investment that we should invest with.
It’s primordial role is to improve, innovate and produce well equipped
human being that would be able to perform well in the labor market.
In
Education, teachers are not just responsible for delivering Instructions, but
also gathering informations about the efficacy of their Instructional strategies.
It is called Assessment, it is an act or process of collecting and interpreting
information about the student’s performances. Assessment is very important for
teachers and also to the industry, through the collected informations of the
teachers from the students the industry would able to identify educational
material needs of the school in order to deliver the instructions effectively,
the industry would able to create and innovate new educational materials for
the learning needs of the students, the industry would able to supply of
Instructional materials that would be useful for teachers in delivering their lessons.
It’s the greatest relevance of assessment to the industry, because the school
is the consumer, and the industry is the provider.
Education
and industry supports each other. Education provides well equipped human that
would be a great asset to the labor market of the industry while industry
create something that has a great value and use to the mankind and especially
for the development of education.
RELEVANCE OF ASSESSMENT TO ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFFS
Administration and program staff also plays a role in assessment. Assessment
is the process where in we gather or collect information about student’s
learning.
Assessment tools are the guide of administrators and public staff.
Assessment doesn’t end with teachers alone. Administrators and staff are also
concern to the results of the assessment.
Through this they can be able to identify the strengths and
weaknesses of the program. Hence, they can create more effective styles that
could improve the teaching quality of the teachers.
Quality education can be achieve through evaluation conducted in a
particular school.
RELEVANCE OF ASSESSMENT TO TEACHERS
Assessment
brings about the ways of giving interpretation to the performance of the
learners. Thus, it helps in determining the intellectual progress and, too, to
monitor the physical development of the learners as a whole. Assessment provide
evidence of the improvement of the individuals.
Since the establishment of
education systems, teachers frequently do assessment to monitor the learning
process of their learners. Assessments are considered as instructional
practices that provide information to cater the learning needs. Moreover,
assessments reveal if the teaching methods and strategies, and approaches of
the teachers are effective enough for the learning process of the learners. As
such, ways to measure and evaluate their progress through having assessment
tools.
And since assessments are to
diagnose learners’ weaknesses and strengths, determine learner’s performance
and mediate the teaching and learning process, assessment draw directions on
how the teachers are able to help their learners. Indeed, assessment is a vital
page in education and a partner to teachers for learners improvement required
for the development of teaching learning process.
RELEVANCE OF ASSESSMENT TO STUDENTS
Students/ learners are the main focused and the most
concerned with the assessment. It is really designed for them in order to be
guided in their learning process. Assessment is a really big necessary for
them.
Students
are becoming actively engaged in the learning process. They are really the
subject in assessment in order for them to assess them on what are the things
they need. Assessment of student learning is an ongoing process aimed at
understanding and improving student learning. It involves setting goals and
standards for student learning and then systematically gathering and analyzing
evidence to determine how well student performance matches those expectations
and standards. Through assessment, better learning performance will be
achieved.
This
would also help the students to motivate themselves in performing at their
maximum level to achieve the standard of their learning.
RELEVANCE OF ASSESSMENT TO POLICY MAKERS
Many
assessment debates are popping-out such as, How assessment might best support
learning and teaching? and, How assessment is use to provide information on the
progress of learner, school, and country? These are some of the questions that
needs evidences that will prove that assessment is important.
Assessment
plays a vital role for the progress and effectiveness of different educational
methods, it is being used to determine what is needed and fill what is lacking in the educational
services, it's result will help to solve the dynamic needs of the learners and
may help to address the solutions that is suitable for the better development
of the school can offer.
Policy makers needs assessment results to do their duty to play
a significant part in the field of educational system as every components in
the system gets implemented on the basis of their decisions. The role of the
policy makers includes the monitoring of the school size, class size, school
choice, school privatization, tracking, teacher education and certification,
teacher pay, teaching methods, curricular content, graduation requirements,
school infrastructure investment and the values that schools are expected to
uphold and model, but because of the dynamic needs of the learner, policy
makers needs to adjust things and create new policies that will fill the needs
of the learners succeed to bring the best education that our time demands.
Policy maker needs to assessment for them to determine what is
the solution to be done to supply the demand of the dynamic needs of the
learners because, policy makers also needs to make clear in analyzing
educational policies for them to achieve the goal of giving better education
for the students to help them reach their profession and innovate teachers as a
competitive professionals that is capable of making their class room as dynamic
as the world around us.
RELEVANCE OF ASSESSMENT TO PARENTS
Assessment
is a critical aspect of planning an educational program for a child. Yet most
parents of children with visual impairments will find this process to be one of
the most difficult and stressful ones that they encounter. Assessment is
something that occurs regularly, and will often form a basis for long-term
decisions about their child. It is important that parents develop their own
skills in understanding the process and providing relevant information to the
teachers who is conducting assessment.
It is
difficult for parents to see the advantages of formalized assessment in
addition to that conducted in the classroom. When the need for additional
assessments is discussed, parents often are not sure how they feel about the
issue. The assessments are sometimes seen as a way to add undesired additional
disabilities and part of a discriminatory process that further increases the
isolation of their child. It is important that teams make a realistic appraisal
of the advantages of the assessment process.
The final
reason for assessment, and the one most often feared by a parent, is an
assessment requested to explore the possibility of an additional disability.
This is difficult for parents especially if that additional disability may be
significantly impacting learning in a number of areas. Parents need information
about assessment and decision-making processes to be communicated effectively
to them in ways that they understand.
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