Evaluation: Teaching Learning Process
Evaluation: Teaching Learning Process
Teaching:
• It assess the effectiveness of teaching, teaching strategies, methods and
techniques.
• It provides feedback to the teachers about their teaching and the learners about
their learning.
Curriculum:
• It improves courses/curricula, texts and teaching materials.
Society:
• It provides accountability to society in terms of the demands and requirements of the
employment market.
Parents:
• It manifests itself in a perceived need for regular reporting to parents.
Characteristics of Evaluation:
Functions of Evaluation
1. Placement Functions
2. Instructional Functions
3. Diagnostic Functions
4. Predictive Functions
5. Administrative Functions
6. Guidance Functions
7. Motivation Functions
8. Development Functions
9. Research Functions
10.Communication Functions
Types of Evaluation
1. Placement Evaluation - is designed to place the right person in the right place to
ensure the entry performance of the pupil
Examples: Monthly tests, Class tests, Periodical assessment, Teacher’s observation, etc.
Examples: Traditional school and university examination, Teacher-made tests, Standardised tests,
Practical and oral tests, and Rating scales, etc.
Examples:
• Raman got 93 marks in a test of Mathematics.
• A typist types 60 words per minute.
• Amit’s score in a reading test is 70.
Norm Referenced Evaluation - is the traditional class-based assignment of numerals to the
attribute being measured and that measurement relates to some norm, group or a typical
performance.
It is used to ascertain an individual’s status with respect to the performance of other individuals
on that test.
Examples:
• Raman stood first in Mathematics test in his class.
• The typist who types 60 words per minute stands above 90 percent of the typists who
appeared the interview.
• Amit surpasses 65% of students of his class in reading test.
Importance of Evaluation
1. It helps a teacher to know his pupils in details; to determine, evaluate and refine his
instructional techniques; and helps him in setting, refining and clarifying the
objectives as well as know the entry behaviour of the students.
2. It helps an administrator in educational decisions such as selections, classification and
placement.
3. It helps to design better educational programmes.
4. It helps the parents know the educational progress of their children and evaluation
alone can assess the pupils’ progress from time to time.
5. It provides an accurate information regarding pupil’s abilities, interest, attitude and
personality traits
6. It helps us know whether the instructional objectives have been achieved or not. As
such evaluation helps in planning better strategies for education.
7. It helps us to know whether aims and objectives are attainable or not and as such, it
helps in reformulation of aims and objectives.
8. It studies the ‘total child’ and thus helps us to undertake special instructional
programmes like enrichment programme, for the bright and remedial programmes for
the backward.
9. It helps a student in encouraging good study habits, in increasing motivation and in
developing abilities and skills, in knowing the results of progress and in getting
appropriate feedback.
10. It helps us to undertake appropriate guidance services.
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