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The document discusses different types of assessment used in education including diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment. It also covers approaches to assessment, the importance of assessment, establishing high quality assessments, and current trends in assessment.

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AL2 - Module 1 Notes

The document discusses different types of assessment used in education including diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment. It also covers approaches to assessment, the importance of assessment, establishing high quality assessments, and current trends in assessment.

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ASSESSMENT

• Process of gathering data to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of student learning. (Harris
and Hodges, 1995)
• Any processes that appraise an understanding, abilities or skills. individual's knowledge, (QAA UK Quality
Code for Higher Education.2011)
• The act of making a judgment, evaluating about something

Assessment as an Integral Part of Teaching

- determines whether or not the goals of education are being met


- helps the students to demonstrate their learning, provide feedback on the errors they've been making,
and help provide opportunities to better their performance with each assessment.

Assessment in the Context of Teaching-Learning

1. Diagnostic Assessment- This is a form of pre-assessment that allows a teacher to determine individual
student's prior knowledge.
2. Formative Assessment- An assessment during instruction / during the formative process to provide the
teacher with information regarding how well the learning objectives of a given learning activity are being
met.
3. Summative Assessment- takes place at the end of a learning sequence to find out if students have
mastered the learning outcomes.
4. Traditional Assessment- The conventional methods of testing which usually produce a written
document, such as quiz, exam, or paper.

Selected-response type Constructed-response type

Paper-and-Pencil Test

5. Authentic Assessment- focuses on students using and applying knowledge and skills in real-life settings
6. Criterion-referenced assessment- teacher judgements about how a student does in an assessment
task are based on standards and criteria that are pre-determined and made available to students at the
time the assignment is set.
7. Norm-referenced assessment- compares students' performances to one another.
8. Contextualized assessment- The focus is on the students' construction of functioning knowledge. It is
the students' performance in their application of knowledge and skills in the real work context of the
discipline area.
9. Decontextualized assessment- Includes written exams which are suitable for assessing declarative
knowledge, and do not have a direct connection to a real life context.

Approaches to Assessment

➢ Assessment for learning- formative assessment


➢ Assessment as learning- self-assessment
➢ Assessment of learning- summative assessment, recorded scores
Importance of Assessment

1. Provides diagnostic feedback

2. Helps educators set standards

3. Evaluate progress

4. Relate to a student's progress

5. Motivates performance

Establishing High Quality Assessments

1. Quality assessments are in accordance with contemporary view of active learning and motivation.

2. Assessment of high quality is valid.

3. Assessment of high quality is reliable.

4. Assessment of high quality is fair.

Current Trends in Assessment

1. Using at least some performance-based assessment

2. Examining higher-level cognitive skills and emphasizing integrated rather than isolated skills

3. Using multiple assessment methods

4. Having high performance standards including world-class standards for interpreting assessment results

5. Involving students in all aspects of assessment

6. Making standards and criteria public rather than private and secretive :

7. Using computer as part of assessment

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