3. overview
Assessment is an essential and powerful tool in the
teaching and learning process. Moreover, it is a process
of obtaining data with which we could measure student
competence and learning outcomes. The process
begins with the identification of the specific target
goals before collecting and interpreting the
information. This chapter deals mainly on the discussion
of the different types of assessment being used in the
teaching and learning process.
Chapter Intended Learning Outcome
At the end of the chapter, you should be able to
distinguish the different types of assessment, and relate
it to learning outcomes.
4. Traditional assessments are indirect and
inauthentic measures of students learning
outcomes. This kind of assessment is
standardized and for that reason, they are
one-shot, speed-based, and norm-referenced
(Bailey, 1998).
Authentic assessment focuses on the
analytical and creative thinking skills, students
to work cooperatively and that reflect student
learning, student achievement, and student
attitudes of relevant activities.
Traditional and Authentic
AsSessment
5. The commonly reported dimensions of authenticity are grouped into three broad
categories (frey, 2012)
A defense of the answer or
product is required.
The assessment is formative
Students collaborate with
each other or with the
teacher
The scoring criteria known
or student-developed.
Multiple indicators or
portfolios are used for
scoring.
The performance
expectation is mastery
Realistic activity or
context
The task is
performance-based
The task is cognitively
complex
The Role of the
Student
The Scoring
The Context of
the Assessment
6. 11 2 3 4l
The task should be
representative of
performance in the
field.
Attention should be
paid to teaching and
learning the criteria
for assessment.
Self-assessment
should play a great
role.
When possible,
students should
present their work
publicly and defend
it.
In the present to k-12 curriculum students are expected to produce products or what
teachers want their students performances through authentic tasks. This should
reflect what teachers do with their learning and demonstrate the use in real life
situation. Wiggins (1989) argues that teachers should "test those capacities and
habits we think are essential and test them in context. Make them replicate within
reason, the challenges at the heart of authentic assessment has four basic
characteristics:
1 2 3 4
7. Authentic assessment
are direct measures.
The main purpose of
authentic assessment is to
able to use the acquired
knowledge and skills in real
world. Forms of assessment
task must be applied in
authentic situations.
Authentic assessments
captured constructive
nature of learning.
Authentic assessments
integrate teaching,
learning, and
assessment.
Authentic assessments
provide multiple paths
to demonstration.
In the constructivist point of
view, learners should create
knowledge and meaning
based from schemata. Thus,
assessments cannot just ask
students to repeat
information they have
received. Students must also
be asked to demonstrate
what that they have been
taught.
In the authentic assessment
model, the same authentic task
used to measure the students'
ability to apply the knowledge
or skills is used as a vehicle for
student learning. Problem
solving and decision making
skills best exemplified by this
purpose. .
Students may have different
ways by which they could
demonstrate what they have
learned. Similarly, authentic
tasks tend to give the students
more freedom on how they
demonstrate what they have
learned.
11. Assessment for Learning pertains to the use of formative
evaluation to determine and improve students learning outcomes.
formative evaluation and
summative evaluation
Assessment of Learning uses summative evaluation which
provides evidence of students level of achievement in relation to
curricular learning outcomes.
12. Formative Assessment refers to the frequent, interactive
assessment of students progress to identify learning needs
and shape teaching (OECD, 2005).
Formative Assessment can be defined more specifically as “all
those activities undertaken by teachers, and by their students in
assessing themselves, which provide information to be used as
feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities in which
they are engaged” (Black and William, 1998).
13. Formative assessment occurs at three points of
instruction:
During Instruction
1.
2. Between Lessons
3.Between Units.
Most formative assessments occur during instruction (William and
Leahy, 2007).
14. are conducted at the end of
each section or unit to find out
student achievement. Summative
assessment are typically
traditional paper and pencil
measures.
Summative Assessment
15. Formative
Characteristic
Characteristic of Formative and Summative
Assessment
Summative
Purpose
When Conducted
Student Involvement
Student Motivation
Teacher role
To provide ongoing feedback
and adjustment to instruction.
To document student learning at
the end of an instructional
segment
During instruction and after
instruction
After instruction
Encouraged Discouraged
Intrinsic, mastery-oriented Extrinsic, performance-oriented
To provide immediate, specific
feedback and instructional
correctives
To measures student
achievement and give grades
16. Formative
Characteristic
Characteristic of Formative and Summative
Assessment
Summative
Learning
Emphasized
Level of
Specificity
Structure
Techniques
Impact on Learning
Deep understanding, application,
and reasoning.
Knowledge and
Comprehension
Highly specific and individual General and group oriented
Flexible, adaptable Rigid, highly structured
Informal Formal
Strong, positive, long lasting Weak and fleeting
19. Norm-Referenced assessment gives us
information on what the student can perform by
comparing to another student.
Criterion-Referenced assessment describes the
performance of the students without reference to the
performance of others which uses preset criteria or
predefined and absolute standard or outcomes
20. NoNorm-Referenced Criterion-Referenced
Principal Use Survey Testing Mastery Testing
Major Emphasis
Measures individual
differences in
achievement
Describes tasks students
can perform.
Interpretation of
Results
Compares performance
to that of other individual
Compares performance
to a clearly specified
achievement domain
Content of
Courage
Typically covers a broad
area of achievement
Typically focuses on a
limited set of learning
tasks.
21. NoNorm-Referenced Criterion-Referenced
Principal Use Survey Testing Mastery Testing
Nature of Test
Plan
Table of specifications is
commonly used
Detailed domain specifications are favored.
Item Selection
Procedures
Items are selected that provide
maximum discrimination among
individuals (to attain a reliable
ranking). Easy items are
typically eliminated from the
test.
Includes all times needed adequately to
describe performance.
No attempt is made to alter item difficulty or
to eliminate easy items to increase the spread
of scores.
Performance
Standards
Level of performance is
determined by relative position
in some known group (ranks
fifth in a group of 20)
Level of performance is commonly determined
by absolute standards (demonstrates mastery
by defining 90 percent of technical terms).
23. Contextualized assessment, the focus is on the students'
construction of functioning knowledge and the students'
performance in application of knowledge in the real work context
of the discipline area.
Decontextualized assessment includes written exams and term
papers, which are suitable for assessing declarative knowledge,
and do not necessarily have a direct connection to a real-life
context.
25. Analytic assessment refers to specific approach in the
assessment of learning outcomes. In this procedure, students are
given feedback on how well they are doing on each important
aspect of specific task expected from them.
Holistic assessment refers to a global approach in the assessment
of a student-learning outcome