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.
Welcome Witty Pedagogues!
Welcome Witty Pedagogues!
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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