Practices of Assessment :Dialogue,Feedback,peer and self assessment,formative use of summative assessment

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Practices of
Assessment
Dr.Anju.K.J
Assistant Professor
Euphrasia Training College for Women

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Dialogue
 It is an effective informal formative strategy
 It is the verbal encounter between two or more people
 Dialogue can be used to assess knowledge,practice,its an evidence of reflection
 Interactive in nature
 Helps to achieve desired learning goals
 Enable to recognize students conceptions, language use and communication skills
 Eg: Critical discussion, Reflective dialogues
 Supportive tool of social participation and social cognition
 Open ended questions are used to assess the types of knowledge such as declarative(what),
procedural(how) and schematic(why)

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Feedback through marking
 Feedback is one of the means of achieving reinforcement of
desired responses.
 Providing feedback refers to making available the knowledge of
results of ones own actions immediately.

z Principles of good feedback practices
 Feedback provided should make students know what good performance is.
 Feedback provided should help students to self correct their responses.
 Opportunity is to be provided for students to resubmit their answers after improving them with the
help of the feedback received.
 After returning the scored answer script, the teacher should arrange for discussion with students
regarding means of improving their learning achievement.
 Enough time should be given for students to reflect on their learning achievement
 During the discussion in the feedback session, the teacher should make the students know the
criteria for the appropriate answers expected by examiners.
 Feedback provider should encourage positive motivational beliefs and self esteem of students that
leads to improvement in learning.

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Peer Assessment
 Students provide feedback to their peers on a product or a
performance based on the criteria of excellence for that product
or event .
 Students will get an opportunity to reflect on the learning
process of their peers
 Peer assessment involves in both formative review to provide
feedback and summative grading

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Advantages
 It helps to develop the ability to make judgements.
 It encourages student autonomy and higher order thinking skills.
 Encouraging students to take responsibility of their own learning.
 Helps to clarify assessment criteria.
 Encourage students to critically analyse work done by others, rather than simply seeing
a mark.
 Reduces the marking load on the teacher.
 Students learn collaborative skills by working with one another.
 It helps to develop interpersonal skills.

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Disadvantages
 Students may lack the ability to evaluate each other
 Students may not take it seriously,allowing friendship to influence their marking
 Students will have a tendency to award everyone the same mark.
 Students may not like peer marking because of the possibility of being discriminated
against, being misunderstood. etc.
 Without lecturer intervention, students may mis inform each other.6. Additional briefing
time can increase teacher work load.

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Self assessment
 The learner makes judgment on their own learning
 The child assess his own progress of knowledge,skill,process etc.
 Student apply their known criteria and expectation to their work and reflect on results to determine their
progress
Advantage
 Increase students motivation,involvement,responsibility
 Develop self directed learning
 Focuses on students judgment skill, their autonomy
 Reflection on their own performance thereby can set goal
Disadvantages
 Time consuming
 Difficult to apply in lower level and for inclusive people
 unreliable

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Formative use of summative assessment
 It means using information derived from summative assessment to
improve future student performance
 Effective feedback encourages students to undertake more challenging
work
 Scores reflects progress in the course and also in instructional program
 Helps teachers to modify instructional strategies
 Opportunity for further learning and future achievement
 To select goal
 Increases self esteem and helps to motivate students

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