Unit 1: Concept of Assessment: - Meaning, Nature, Functions of Assessment
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Essay question
- “A comprehensive assessment makes use of formative as well as summative assessment.” Comment.
Short Question
- Functions of Assessment
Assessment is a systematic collection review and use of information about educational programs undertaken for the purpose of student learning and development
ReplyDeleteFor example have students take exams, respond to oral questions, do homework exercises, write papers etc
Good examples, Chitrakala.
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DeleteThank you Ma'am
DeleteMonitoring the progress
ReplyDeleteGood assessment is based on a vision of the kinds of learning we most value for students and how they might best achieve these. It sets out to measure what matters most. Assessment is most effective when it reflects the fact that learning is a complex process that is multi-dimensional, integrated and revealed in student performance over time.
Decision making
Assessment helps in taking decision for planning the teaching learning strategy. It will also help in planning the curriculum of the school. It also helps for taking decisions for the weak students and accordingly planning for the development of those students. It also provides guideline for how much weight age should be given to what all things during learning process.
Hi Veena,
DeleteHow are the above two points will go with formative and summative assessment? Pls justify
Maam this is the functions of assessment
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ReplyDeleteComprehensive assessment is something where all sort of assessment are done.
Different type of assessment have different purpose to fulfill hence when comprehensive assessment is done it uses formative as well as Summitive assessment.
Formative assessment is something in which involvement of students is there and it is done through out year, It gives immediate explicit feedback.
Summitive assessment is cumulative evaluation which is done at the end of the course to find out if long term goals are achieved or not.
Add examples of formative and summative assessment
DeleteIn example for formative assessment can be questions asked in classroom while teaching , Viva, Internal surprise test.
DeleteAnd Summitive assessment ca be the final exam.
Functions of Assesment
ReplyDelete1. It helps in psychilogical and educational research
2. It will help in determining success in future.
3.It gives feedback to students on their efforts
4.It can help to determine whether curriculum needs any changes
5. Instructional planning helps the teacher to make a plan to target the course of study.
Delete6. Making decision helps to focus on improvements.
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Delete1. Comprehensive assessment is an integral part of education. a comprehensive assessment is an evaluation tool that allow teachers to assess students overall understanding of the skill and boost students learning through improved teaching strategies.
ReplyDelete2. functions of assessment -
assessment detects all the activities during the elevation.
it helps in improving performance and achieving desired result.
it helps to focus on improvements.
Add proper justification for formative and summative assessment
DeleteEssay question
ReplyDeleteA formative assessment is an evaluation done while students are learning. If students face problem in understanding then it helps teachers to find a better way to clear their doubts.
Summative assessment are the typical test that happen after a few lessons or at the end of a unit. In summative assessments traditionally receive a numerical or letter grade.
A blend of both of these assessments will aid in monitoring student progress. It help parents stay informed about the progress of child.
Hence comprehensive assessments helps teachers to plan their learning teaching process and helps in betterment of students
Short Question
Functions of Assessment
Motivation - Assessments motivates students to perform better in curricular as well as co-curricular activities.
Feedback - Using different assessment methods helps teachers to give genuine feedback to parents, management and indirectly to society about the performance of the students.
Remedial courses
With the help of assessment, teachers can find best suitable remedial courses according to the needs of the students.
Good attempt, Yashali.
Delete*Comprehensive assessment* Entails the whole system of assessing Student understanding as a mechanism to improve teaching and learning.
ReplyDeleteTeachers use multiple strategies to gather and share information about what students understand and to identify where they may be struggling
Formative assessment refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in process evaluations of student comprehension,learning needs and academic progress during a lesson,unit or course.
Formative assessment help teachers identify concepts that students are struggling to understand,skills they are having difficulty acquiring or learning standards they have not yet achieved so that adjustments can be made to lessons ,instructional technique and academic support
The general goal of formative assessment is to collect detailed information that can be used to improve instruction and students learn while it's happening
Example of formative assessment :
Include asking students to draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a topic.submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a lecture turn in a research proposal for early feedback.
Summative assessment: is any method of evaluation performed at the end of a unit that allows a teacher to measure a student's understanding typically against standardized criteria.
Example of summative assessment include
Written assessment
Performance assessment
Standardized assessment
Oral assessment
Very Good attempt, Meenakshi.
DeleteThankyou Mam
DeleteFUNCTION OF ASSESSMENT
ReplyDelete1) Assessment serve as Analytical tool
Assessment do not simply tell you the way one part of an organization work on its own .instead they explain the way a part of organization works within an organisational structure and an organisational culture,based on a sophisticated understanding of how the software development cycle works in most successful companies around the world.
2) Assessment function as fulcrum of positive change
3) Assessment transform Organization by the way they work
4) Assessment educate organization in world wide best practices
Good attempt
DeleteFunctions of Assessment
ReplyDelete1.Monitoring the progress of the student throughout the teaching learning process
2.Screening
It also helps in transmitting all the achievement scoresvto the institution students, teachers and parents which leads to the comparison of achieved goals with intended goals and objectives
3.Decision Making
4.Diagnostic process
5.Placement of students as per their knowledge and skills
6.Instructional Planning
7.Evaluation Of instructional programme
8.Feedback with respect to performance and improvement required in the progress
9.Motivation to the students
10.Reflection
Reflection helps to provide efficient feedback to the students which help them to improve student learning
Good attempt, Chitrakala
DeleteThank you ma'am
DeleteEssay question
ReplyDelete*Assessment is the ongoing process of gathering, analysing and reflecting of evidence help the teacher for planning future learning.
*A comprehensive assessment is an evaluation tool that allows the teacher to plan a multiple stratagic .
*In comprehensive assessment teacher take a test, through result a teacher understand the students understanding level and are able to identify their strengths and weekness.
*A comprehensive assessment includes different types of assessment i.e formative and summative 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.
*The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.
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Classroom assessment involves both teacher and the students to know the students performance. It helps teacher to get feedback about its teaching and it helps students to analyze its performance.
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1. Formative Assessment : It includes not giving marks for completion of task but rather contribute learning through feedback.It is integral part of learning and teaching.
2. Informal assessment : It includes assessment when the teacher ask question during lectures, give task to complete. It is consider as less stressful for students.
3. Formal assesment : This type of assesment take place when students are aware that they are doing particular task for assesment i.e. written exam.
4. Continuous assesment : Continuous assesment helps teacher and students to bring out improvement needed in learning and teaching process.
5. Placement Assesment : It is useful for the teacher to place student in a particular task for a academic programme.
E.g a student well versed with sports knowledge will be given task to look after the sports events of school.
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ReplyDeleteClassroom assesment is a systematic approach used to evaluate how much and how well the students are learning.This helps a teacher to determine her teaching strategies and have a check on the learning of the students.
ReplyDeleteFormative assessment refers to a wide variety of methods which a teacher uses to conduct the evaluation of the leatners learning abd progress during a lesson or course.This evaluation gives a quick feedback to the teacher teaching process and it helps to accordingly change and modify the teaching strategies.Eg:Quizzes held after a learning session.
Summative Assesment refers to evaluate the learning and academic achievement of the students at the end if the year.Eg-End of term or mid term exams.
Therefore we can come to a conclusion that formative and summative assessments are comprehensive and two overlapping ways of assessing the learners progress in schools with the common goal of analysing the progress, strenth and weakness of the students.