Educational Assessment
Types of Assessment
Purpose of Assessment
Assessment for Learning
Assessment of Learning
Classroom Assessment
National Assessment
For the purpose of giving information on students' mastery of content, knowledge and skills
Is carried out at the end of an instructional unit or course of study
To serve the purpose of accountability or of ranking.
Measures achievement at a particular point.
Used to redirect learning in ways that help learners master learning goals
Used for ensuring that the intended learning outcomes are achieved by students.
Supports teaching and learning with the specific use of learner-centred approaches and strategies
What is Assessment
for making appropriate decisions and enhancing learning
used for making decisions about students, curricular, programmes and educational policy
Process of gathering and analysing evident about student learning
for providing information to students, teachers, schools, parents, other stakeholder and to the education system.
Modes of Assessment
Alternative Assessment
Pen-and-Paper Tests
designed, conducted and grade at national level
E.g PSLE, GCE 'O' Levels
designed and conducted within school
Can be both summative and formative in nature
Summative in nature
Formative in nature
Traditional mode of assessment
Performance Assessment
Peer Assessment
Self Assessment
What
non traditional tasks
allows for inference of how well students have learnt
Examples
Project Work
Practical tasks
Science Practical Tests
Performance Tasks
Oral Presentations
Debates
Drama
students create a product or perform behaviour-based tasks that reflects skills and knowledge they have learnt.
based on settings that emulate real-life contexts
students are involved in the assessment of their own work
Students are involved in the assessment of the work of other students.
Usually through the use of a rubric
to assess and give feedback to their peers
can be through the use of checklist or rubric
Accuracy in Assessment
Validity
Reliability
Fairness
Ensure every student assessed in an equitable way
Ensuring test is designed not to advantage or disadvantage any particular group of students.
The degree to which a test measures what it claims to measure.
Valid test
Inferences are
appropriate
meaningful
useful
the degree to which test scores are consistent over repeated applications of a measurement