Purpose of assessment

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1. PURPOSE OF ASSESSMENT DR. TERESA DIEZ SOLERO PROFESSOR ANALYN A. CARAG Masterand

2. ASSESSMENT It is an integral part of the educative process . It is used by teachers in collecting informal and informal information about what and how their students are learning. They student tests and assignments, listen to small-group activities and observed students engaged in structured and unstructured activities.

3. When teachers systematically collect the right kinds of information and use it effectively, they can help their students grow as thinkers and learners. In some contexts, the term assessment and evaluation are interchangeable. We use the term “assessment” to refer specifically to all kinds of methods and strategies that provide information about a student’s learning.

4. Why Assessment is Useful ? It is based on educational objectives formulated in terms of the principles of growth and development . It includes all aspects of the changes in the behavior of the students/ learners.

5. Why Assessment is Useful?   It is used to improve teaching and learning. To know if students can apply what they have learned in authentic situations.  

6. What do we assess?   We assess learning, and we evaluate results in terms of some set of criteria. Evaluation Assessment is most useful to teachers and Evaluation is most useful to students administrators, and parents .Assessment focuses on the individual, group , and students.

7. Why is it important to assess? To find out what the students know (knowledge). To find out what the students can do, and how well they can do it (skill; performance) To find out how students go about the task of doing their work (process). To find out how students feel about their work (motivation, effort).

8. Assessment serves two purposes: To facilitate Instructional Function - it yields data to establish the extent of knowledge, skills, habits and attitudes acquired by the students/learners. - it specifies the strength and weaknesses of instruction and the needs and problems of the students which must addressed.

9. 2. To facilitate administrative and supervisory functions - Achieving and maintaining quality instruction is one of the foremost goals of management. - standards are being set to determine who should be admitted

10. 2. To facilitate administrative and supervisory functions - Achieving and maintaining quality instruction is one of the foremost goals of management.

11. - standards are being set to determine who should be admitted into the program and who should be retained and to what classification they belong. - to the curriculum planners, the result of assessment can give them hard facts as bases for revising and enriching the curricula.

12. 3. To foster better parent-teacher relationship. - assessment is a means by which teachers can keep the parents informed of the progress made by their children. ex. PTA References: Theories and Principles of Educational Technology, 2008 ed. By Candelaria D. Garo . Intel Education website.