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Issues on Cognitive Level of Assessment - Coggle Diagram
Issues on Cognitive Level of Assessment
Standardized testing
Standardized testing does not take into account the students' different abilities.
It merely measures students' knowledge without considering their motivation, creativity and critical thinking.
Misconception
It gives the mistaken impression that some of the skills in the Bloom's Taxonomy cognitive framework are more difficult and more important from others.
What is cognitive issue in assessment?
Cognitive issues in assessments refer to challenges that can arise when assessing cognitive abilities, such as knowledge, skills, and understanding.
These issues can affect the accuracy and fairness of assessments, and they can impact how well assessments measure what they are intended to measure.
Lack of authentic assessment
Authentic assessment measures students' abilities to apply knowledge and skills in real-world contexts
Students are able to express their abilities and knowledge in authentic assessments using different cognitive levels.
Limited applicability
The cognitive level is useful for designing learning objectives, but it may not be as applicable to all types of learning.
The validity of the assessment to measure each cognitive level.
focus on the content of the assessment to be measured rather than the cognitive level that the assessment will cover.
What are cognitive skills?
When brain uses foundation skills to accomplish the conscious mental activities which include:
reasoning
understanding
learning
Limited tools
The tools for carrying out cognitive assessments for children are largely absent from today’s classrooms
Due to the slow wheels of government bureaucracy, budgetary limitations, or a deliberate rejection of today’s best cognitive theories
Simplistic view of learning
The cognitive level can be seen as a simplistic view of learning, as it only considers the mental processes involved in learning.
Rigidity
The questions does not accurately reflect the complexity of thinking required in real-life situations.
Different interpretation
A question that is classified as a higher-order thinking question in one context may be considered a lower-order thinking question in another.