Reflection on module 1: OVERVIEW IN ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING
Learning more about assessment of learning is indeed essential for future teachers like us. Achieving comprehensive understanding of the student learning assessment will help us realize our goal of making ourselves effective and efficient teachers. After the discussions held for this module, we were able to understand assessment as the activity undertaken by students to provide information for the teacher to be used as feedback to modify the teaching and learning activities.
After completing this module we learned the guiding principles in assessment of learning, types of measurements and their differences, the common characteristics and differences between norm-references test and criterion-referenced tests, the types of assessment, and the modes of assessment. These will help educators in the field of education because we cannot assess the students’ learning subjectively. It should be objective to avoid biases. This is why evaluation of data collected through tests and other measuring devices is most needed. And we learned that to be able to prepare a good test we must have a thorough mastery of the subject matter, knowledge of the pupils to be tested, and skills in verbal expression and in the use of the different test formats. Since education is a continuous process of growth and change among learners, assessment should run parallel to the process. It should permeate the whole educational program of continuous improvement and change. Provisions for placement, formative, diagnostic and summative should be made.
Assessment refers to the process of gathering, describing or quantifying information about the students performance. It includes paper and pencil test, extended responses( ex. essays) and performance assessments are usually referred to us"authentic assessment" task (example presentation of research work).
Measurement is a process of obtaining a numerical description the degreeto which an individual possesses a particular characteristic.
Evaluation it refers to the process of examining the performance of the students. It also determines whether or not the student has met the lesson instructional objectives.
Test is an instrument or systematic procedure design to measure the quality, ability, skill or knowledge of student by giving a set of question in a uniform manner.
Testing is a method used to measure the level of achievement or the performance of the learners. It also refers to the administration, scoring and interpretation of an instrument ( procedure) design to elicit information about performance in a sample of a particular area of behavior.
Types of Evaluation
Teachers need continuous feedback in order to plan, monitor and evaluate their instruction. Obtaining feedback may take any of the following types: diagnostic, formative, summative.
Diagnostic evaluation is normally undertaken before instruction, in order to assess students’ prior knowledge of a particular topic or lesson. Its purpose is to anticipate potential learning problems and group/ place the students in a proper course or unit of study.
Diagnostic evaluation can also be called pre-assessment, since it is designed to check their ability levels of students in some areas so that instructional starting points can be established.
Formative evaluation is usually administered during the instruction of process to provide feedback to students and teachers on how well the former are learning the lesson being taught. A result of this type of evaluation permit teachers to modify instruction as needed.
Summative evaluation is undertaken to determine student achievement for grading purposes. Grades provide the teachers the rationale for passing or failing students, based on a wide range of accumulated behaviors, skills, and knowledge. Through this type of evaluation, the students’ accomplishments during a particularly marking term or summarize or summed up.
Examples of summative evaluation are chapter tests, homework grades, completed project grades, periodical tests, unit tests, and achievement tests.