After this presentation you will be know about:
An Assessment
What can be assessed?
Which criteria's are helpful in choosing an assessment method?
What should we do with the information from our assessment?
Types of assessment
3. Objectives
• After this presentation you will be know about:
An Assessment
What can be assessed?
Which criteria's are helpful in choosing an assessment method?
What should we do with the information from our assessment?
Types of assessment
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4. Assessment
• In education, the term assessment refers to the wide
variety of methods or tools that educators use to
evaluate, measure, and document the academic
willingness, learning progress, skills, achievements, or
educational needs of students.
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5. What can be assessed?
We can assess :
students learning
Students learning style
students interest
Students Skills/Ability
Contents knowledge
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6. criteria in choosing assessment method
• Test should be:
• Reliable
• Valid
• Beneficial for all students
• Simple to operate should not costly
• Formative and summative assessment should be included
• Timely feedback that promotes learning and facilitates improvement should be an
integral part of the assessment
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7. What should we do with the information from
our assessment?
• Use it to improve the focus of teaching.
• Use it to focus student attention of strengths and weaknesses
• Use it to improve program planning (program assessment).
• Use it for reporting to parents.
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8. Types of Assessment
• Classroom assessment:
Asking question
Listening to student discussion
• Performance assessment:
Product : drawing, science experiment, term papers
Behavior : time trial for running a mile , reciting a poem, dancing
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9. Types of Assessment
• Portfolio:
It measure student growth over a long
period of time
It can include formative and summative
assessment, it may contain written work,
chart, survey, essays , art, graphs,
standardized test score, test. each item
may have a reflection from the student
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10. Conclusion
Assessment techniques are evaluation methods that
serve two purposes. They can help you to assess the
degree to which your students understand the course
content and they can provide you with information
about effectiveness of your teaching methods
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