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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       Just to inform you this is a project website for our subject Ed103 (Assessment of Student Learning) at Mindanao State University headed by our very passionate and dedicated professor Prof. Jovar Pantao, this website will be having articles about the relevance of assessment in different stakeholders in education and many more. Hope that you will like this website, enjoy your stay here!!

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