Assessment AS Learning

OBSERVE

1. Observe what Teacher does or listen to what Teacher says to find out if the students understood
the lesson while teaching-learning is in progress.
What Teacher Said Tally Total

“Do you understand?” III 3

“Any questions?” II 2

“Any clarification?” III 3

“Is it clear?” II 2

What Teacher Did Tally Total

The teacher explains again if the I 1

She gives more examples.

IIII 4

2. Did the teacher ask the class “Did you understand”? If she did, what was the class’ response?

- YES, the teacher said that three times, after asking her student “did you
understand?” if her students response negative she will explain again a certain part of the
lesson to clarify it.
3. Did the students make the teacher feel or sense they did not understand the lesson or a part of
the lesson? How?

- Students somehow make their teacher feel that they did not understand some part of
the lesson by keep on asking the teacher give more examples.

4. If they did, how did the teacher respond?

- The teacher will re-teach the part of the lesson that students did not understand and
added more examples for them to clearly understand their lesson.

5. Were the students given the opportunity to ask questions for clarification? How was this done?

- Yes, their teacher is always asking them if there is “any questions and clarifications please
raise your hand.”

6. If she found out that her/his lesson was not clearly understood, what did teacher do? Did you
observe any of these activities? Please check.
______ Peer tutoring (Tutor were assigned by teacher to teach one or two classmates
______ Each-one-teach-one (Students paired with one another)
______ Teacher gave a Module for more exercises for lesson mastery
___/__ Teacher did re-teaching

Others, please specify

7. If she engaged himself/herself in re-teaching, how did she do it? Did he/she use the same
teaching strategy? Describe.
- The teacher formulates new strategy and method to re-teach the lesson in an easiest
and clearest ways for the students to understand the lesson.

8. While re-teaching by himself/herself and / or with other students-turned tutors, did teacher
check on students’ progress? If yes, how?
- The teacher will check the progress and development by giving the students an assessment
to measure if they already learned the lesson.
ANALYZE

1. Why should a teacher find out if students understand the lesson while teaching is in progress? It is not
better to do a once-and-for-all assessment at the completion of the entire lesson?

- In order for the teachers to determine that the strategies and methods they use and
applies are effective or not. It is not better to do a once-and-for-all assessment because
students’ ability and knowledge only depends if the lesson was clearly discuss that is why is it
better to give them an assessment after the discussion.

2. Why is not enough for a teacher to ask “Did you understand, class? “When he/she intends to
check on learners’ progress?
- It is because there is a chance and possibility that the students did not clearly understand the
lesson.

3. Should teacher record results for formative assessment for grading purposes? Why or Why
not?
- Yes, it is really important to record the results of the formative assessment because
it will serve as the basis of the teacher to give the students fair grades.

4. Based on your observations, what formative assessment practice worked?

5. For formative assessment, why is peer tutoring in class sometimes seen to be more effective
than teacher himself/herself doing the re-teaching or tutoring?
- The students can speak their own ideas and thoughts easily with their classmates.
They are not shy and afraid on getting some correction from their classmates and stay focus
and cooperative with them.

6. Could an unreasonable number of failures at the end of the term/grading period be attributed to the
non-application of formative assessment? Why or why not?

- No, there are many factors that affect the students’ grades because of their poor study
habits or maybe they are really interested with the lesson.
REFLECT

 Formative assessment is tasting the soup while cooking. Reflect on this and write
your reflections.
 Should you record results of formative assessment? Why or why not?
- Yes, it is really important to record the results of the formative assessment because it will serve as the
basis of the teacher to give the students fair grades.

OBSERVE

Observe a class and find out practices that reflect assessment as learning. Record your
observations.
Teacher My Observation
1. Did teacher provide opportunities for the Yes, the teacher gives them time to speak their ideas
learners to monitor and reflect on their and thoughts.
own learning?

2. What are proofs that students were Students are engaged in discussion; they are actively
engaged in self-reflection, self- participating and cooperating to answers their
monitoring and selfadjustment? teacher’s question.

3. Did students record and report their own Yes, they are aware because their teacher always
learning? gives them additional points.

4. Did teacher create criteria with the Yes, the teacher always creates a criterion to let
students for tasks to be completed or her student know how she will grade them.
skill to learned?

ANALYZE

1. If the student is at the heart of all assessment, then all assessment should support students
learning. Do you agree? Why or why not?
- I agree because the goal of the teacher is to let students learned and developed their
skills and knowledge so all the assessment must support to their learning for them to be able to
relate to the assessment.

2. Does assessment as learning have the same ultimate purpose as assessment for learning?
- Assessment of learning is a way to see if the students understand and can do while
assessment for learning is a way to see what a teacher can do in response.
REFLECT
The primary purpose of assessment is not to measure but to further learning.

1. Reflect on your personal experiences of assessment in school. Were you given opportunities for self-
assessment? If yes, what was its impact on your learning?

- Yes, based on my experiences of assessment in school we are given opportunities to