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Humor:
Teacher: You missed school yesterday, didn’t you?
Pupil: Not very much!
Role of Assessment
Mr. / Girgis
Definition of assessment:
Assessment
is how we identify our learners’ needs,
document their progress, and determine how we are
doing as teachers and planners. That being said,
how do we know we are doing it right? How do we
know that the assessment
tools we are using
measure what we intend them to?
Reasons of Assessment:
Assessment shows the teacher
the role of progress
testing in the classroom and the importance of
matching testing to instruction. I view testing as a
tool that can help teachers identify student strengths
and weaknesses and evaluate the
effectiveness of
their programs.
I ensure that teachers must design or
choose tests
that are practical, reliable, and valid. Assessment is
perhaps one of most difficult and important parts of
our jobs as
teachers. Ideally, it should be seen as a
means to help us guide students on their road.
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Importance of assessment:
No single procedure can meet the needs of all
learners
and situations, so we need to remember
to incorporate a variety of tools
to help our students
know how they are progressing and to gauge the
effectiveness of our own methodology and
materials.
In classroom assessment,
since teachers
themselves develop, administer and analyze the
questions, they are more likely to apply the results
of the
assessment to their own teaching.
Therefore, it provides feedback on
the
effectiveness of instruction and gives students a
measure of their
progress. Two major functions
can
be pointed out for classroom assessment:
One is to show whether or
not the learning has
been successful,
and the other one is to clarify
the expectations of
the teachers from the student
Evaluation is a process that includes
five basic components:
1) Articulating the purpose of the educational
system.
2) Identifying and collecting relevant information
3) Having ideas that are valuable and useful
to learners in their lives and professions.
4) Analyzing and interpreting information for
learners.
5) Classroom management or classroom decision
making.
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Assessment is a process that includes
four basic components:
1) Measuring improvement over time.
2) Motivating students to study.
3) Evaluating the teaching methods.
4) Ranking the students' capabilities in relation to
the whole group evaluation.
Purpose:
The
purpose of classroom assessment and
evaluation is to give students the opportunity to
show what they have learned rather
than catching
them out or to show what they have not learned
