Assessment.....ppt

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1. Assessment
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Introduction

3. •The word ‘assess’ comes from the Latinverb
‘assidere’ meaning ‘to sit with’.
•In assessment one is supposed to sit with the
learner. This implies it is something we do ‘with’
and ‘for’ students and not ‘to’ students
(Green, 1999).
What is Assessment?
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4. •Assessment can focus on the individual
learner, the learning community (class,
workshop, or other organized group of
learners), the institution, or the
educational system.
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5. Definition
•Assessment istheprocessof
documenting,usuallyinmeasurable
terms,knowledge,skill,attitudes,
andbeliefs.
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Assessment in education is the process of
gathering, interpreting, recording, and
usinginformation about pupils’ responses to
an educational task.
(Harlen, Gipps, Broadfoot, Nuttal,1992)

7. Assessment should:
1.Relate to regular performance
2.Gather from interdisciplinary sources
3.Consider all aspects of the student's life

8. Purpose
•Gathers information to assist in decision
making
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•Screening
•Monitoring students' progress.
•Assigning grades or ranks
•Determining one's own instructional effectiveness.

9. Cont… Purpose
•Clarifying teachers' instructional intentions.
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10. Type of Assessment
•Formative
•Summative
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11. Formative assessment
•The goal of formative assessment is to monitor
student learning to provide ongoing feedback
that can be used by instructors to improve their
teaching and by students to improve their
learning.
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12. •formative assessments:
–help students identify their strengths and
weaknesses and target areas that need work
–help faculty recognize where students are
struggling and address problems immediately
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13. Summative assessment
•The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate
student learningat the end of an instructional
unit by comparing it against some standard or
benchmark.
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14. •Examples of summative assessments
include:
–a midterm exam
–a final project
–a paper
–a senior recital
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16. Evaluation
•Evaluation is part of life, in our life we need to make
evaluation frequently
–like which dress you want to wear in marriage
–What you want to given in gift to your friend.
•In educational scenario evaluation have important
role in judging student progress to know up to what
extent student have achieved the desired set goal.
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17. Cont…
•Evaluation implies a systematic, continuous,
process based upon certain criteria process and
emp-hasises the broader personality change.
•Evaluation is an act or process that allows one to
make a judgment about the desirability or value of
a measure.
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18. Definition
•Evaluation is a systematic process of collecting
evidence about students’ progress and
achievement in both cognitive and non cognitive
areas of learning on the basis of which judgment
are formed and decisions are made.
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19. Scope of Evaluation
•Value judgment
•Effectiveness of appraisal
•Provide baseline for guidance and counseling
•Placement and promotions in jobs.
•Development of attitude, interest, capability,
creativity, originality, knowledge and skill etc.
•Development of tool and techniques.
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20. Cont…Scope of Evaluation
•Development of curriculum and for its revision
•Helpful for curriculum planning and administers
to improve the curriculum pattern.
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21. Measurement
It is a process involving the assigning of a number
to an individuals characteristics.
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22. Measurement Vs evaluation
•Quantitative
•Objective & impersonal
•Precise & scientific
•Not a continues
process, occasional
•Qualitative
•Personal & subjective
•Interpretative &
philosophical
•Continues process
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23. Purposes of evaluation
•Facilitatelearning
•Diagnoseproblems
•Makedecisions
•Improveproducts
•Judgeeffectiveness
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24. Cont…
•Administrative
–Grading student performance
–Selecting & Recruiting
–Promotional of personal
•Education
–Feedback to educational program
–Improve the instruction, measurement and measuring
device
–Curriculum revision
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25. •Monitoring and motivational
–Student progress
–Bring out the inherent capability of student
–Continuous & regular watch on pupil development
•Diagnosis and guidance
–Hard sports or gaps of learning
–Healthy competitive spirit among student
–Weakness of student
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26. Types of evaluation
•Based on time
•Based on manner in which one interpret the result
of the learner performance
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27. Cont…Types of evaluation
Based on time
–Summative
–Formative
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28. Based on manner in which one interpret
the result of the learner performance
–Criterion reference
–Norm reference
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Cont…Types of evaluation

29. Summative Evaluation
•M sriven in 1967 coined the term summative and
formative evaluation.
•Summative evaluation is the commonly known
type of evaluation.
•It comes at the end of the term, course or
programme of teaching.
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30. Cont…
•Annual examination and half yearly examination
in school, public examination are the example of
such evaluation.
•Summative evaluation is done at the end of any
program or instruction.
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31. Summative evaluation-vertical dimension
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First
Year
Summative
Second
Year
Summative
Third
Year
Summative
Fourth
Year
Summative

32. •It is vertical dimension seeing whether the
student has achieved educational objective and
how much he has achieved.
•Help to grade, rank, select the students
•It help in curriculum evaluation.
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33. Formative Evaluation
•On going, continuous evaluation
•According to AJ Nikto“it is concerned with
judgment made during the design and during the
development of program and are toward the
modifying, forming and improving the program
before it is completed”.
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34. Purpose
•It Help in:
–Motivation
–Prediction
–Diagnosis
–Guidance
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35. evaluation-vertical dimension
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Second
Year
First
Year
Third
Year
Fourth
Year

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