principles and strategies of assessment
- 1. PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES OF ASSESSMENT- TYPES OF ASSESSMENT – INTERNAL VS EXTERNAL
- 2. ASSESSMENT • Act of judging or deciding the amount , value ,quality or important of something • Used to evaluate the educational programmes
- 3. CHARACTERISTICS • Valid • Reliable • Flexible • Purposeful (develop current level of knowledge, identify areas ) • Timely (time during a given unit of study to enable students to come to such judgment)
- 4. • Demanding • Efficient and manageable
- 5. PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSMENT • Assessment should be valid • Assessment should be reliable and consistent • Assessment should be explicit,accessible and transparent • Assessment should be inclusive and equitable • Assessment should be manageable
- 6. • Formative and summative assessment should be included in each programme • Timely feedback promote learning • Staff development policy • In depth knowledge of the subject area • Evaluates,monitors and improves teaching practices
- 7. STRATEGIES OF ASSESSMENT • Ask students to reflect • Use quizes • Hand signals • Open ended questions that gets them writing or talking • Response cards • Four corners • Think –pair- share • One question quiz
- 8. • Socratics seminar • 3 2 1 • Ticket out the door • Journal reflection • Pencil-paper assessment • Peer instructions • Make it useful
- 9. • Use variety • Practise frequency • Analogy prompt • Misconceptions Check
- 10. INTERNAL ASSESSMENT • Evaluation by teachers by observation ,test and other techniques
- 11. ADVANTAGES • Minimize the over anxiety and nervousness of students • Rote memorization can be avoided • Helps to identify the strength and weakness of student’s • Active participation of students • Desirable changes in attitude, interest and appreciation of students and teachers
- 12. DISADVANTAGES • Misuse by teachers • Requires experienced,honest and sincere teachers • Reliability and validity are questionable • Requires lots of time to undertake several activities
- 13. CONTINUOUS AND COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION • Continuous – evaluation of identified aspects of students growth and developmentally • Comprehensive – cover both the scholastic and co – scholastic aspects of students growth and development
- 14. GRADING SYSTEM • Students levels of performance classified using letter grades is called gradeing system • Direct and indirect grading – direct – grading through marks. Indirect – grading through letters
- 15. FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE EVALUATION • Evaluation during development stage and corrected accordingly – Formative • Evaluating student learning at the end of an instructional unit - summative
- 16. EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT • Assessment through test,observation by an external agency
- 17. OBJECTIVES • Award the students with degree certificate • Maintane Standard of education • Place students in merit • Get employment • Selection for higher education • Creation of good habits in students
- 18. ADVANTAGES • Evaluate developing competent person from practicing detect and locate fault and problems • Useful and determining the abilities of a student • Evaluate and reevaluate the course of studies • Good device for motivating students
- 19. DISADVANTAGES • Less diverse assessment • Setting same task at the same time for all students • Teachers have no opportunity to build their assessment skill • Much narrower range of assessment