Factors Influencing The Assessment Practices of Senior High School Teachers in Goa District, Philippines
Factors Influencing The Assessment Practices of Senior High School Teachers in Goa District, Philippines
Factors Influencing The Assessment Practices of Senior High School Teachers in Goa District, Philippines
Keywords: assessment methods, senior high school, factors influencing assessment practices
expectations, and professional experiences. The While Erdol and Yildizli (2018) stressed that the
school context and policy, internal school support, characteristics of the student, curriculum, national
parents’ views, social and cultural preferences, and examinations, technology, and features of the subject
others were included in contextual factors that are the factors that affect or influence the classroom
influenced the assessment practices of the teachers. assessment practices of teachers. Among these factors,
Teachers were influenced by the pressure of school the most important factor affecting teachers’ classroom
administrators and head teachers to adopt the required assessment practices in primary school, secondary
assessment practices adhering to the school context school, and high school in Turkey was students’
and policies that affect their own assessment practices. characteristics. They revealed that students’
Effective support and collaboration with colleagues characteristics have the biggest influence on teachers’
and school leaders as internal support influenced classroom assessment practices because determining
teachers’ assessment practices. Parents' views in students’ characteristics is the first step before crafting
assessment influenced the teachers in making their the assessment methods to ensure the suitability and
assessment practices because parents preferred convenience of the students in the given assessment
traditional paper-pencil examinations because they are tasks.
accustomed to the grades of their children for
comparison and monitoring purposes. External factors Also, the study conducted by Mwanza et al. (2022)
such as state and local educational policies, curriculum identified the different factors that influenced
developers, and high stakes and accountability classroom assessment implementation in Lusaka and
assessment influenced teacher’s assessment practices. Chilanga Districts of Lusaka Province in Zambia. The
Teachers’ assessment implementation is influenced by study findings revealed that there are many factors that
state and local policies that encourage them to reform influence the classroom assessment of teachers
their practices. Standardized tests and national and including but not limited to abrupt changes in
local exams pressure teachers to prepare students for curriculum, lack of materials, poor infrastructures of
this prospective examination. Lastly, resource-related learning, absenteeism of the students, teachers'
factors include the working conditions of teachers, personal factors such as belief, values, knowledge and
materials and funding, teacher preparation programs, skills, lack of administrative supports and others.
and others. The working conditions of teachers
influenced their assessment practices by considering
Methodology
the class size and number of lessons taught.
Assessment practices paying attention to individual
feedback and learning which is difficult to achieve in Participants
large classes. Materials and funding influenced
teachers by means of the availability of assessment The participants of the study were the 45 Senior High
materials suited to the specific learning area and School teachers in the selected public secondary
appropriate funding for purchasing assessment schools in Goa District, Division of Camarines Sur,
materials. Philippines that offered Senior High School programs.
In addition, Aloitabi (2018) found that the top 3 factors Instruments of the Study
influencing teachers to the adoption of formative
assessment are curriculum materials (source books and The researchers utilized a survey questionnaire to
syllabuses) policies and support of the school collect the needed data in this study. The survey
management, and teacher’s pedagogical knowledge questionnaire underwent face validity and content
influenced by the students’ strengths and weaknesses. validity by the four experts in the field of education.
It simply means that these factors influence the Prior to the distribution of the survey questionnaire,
teachers’ assessment practices by promoting student the researchers strictly observed ethical considerations
diversity, learning materials, and pedagogical during the conduct of this study. Likewise, the
challenges to deal with, and associating the policies permission of the School Principal and respondents
and direction of the institution. However, results was solicited following the research's ethical
further revealed that formative assessments are considerations.
influenced by working conditions such as class size
and workload, by motivations of principals and peer Procedure
groups, and by assessment practices influenced by
prevailing traditional learning placed in the bottom The researchers followed a series of action plans to
rank. gather the data from the respondents that are needed in
this study. The approval of the communication letter Table 2. Distribution of the respondents when grouped
from the Office of the Schools Division according to their age
Superintendent was sought before the distribution of
the survey questionnaire. Likewise, the researchers
also asked permission from the Office of the Principal
and the respondents. Afterward, the researchers
prepared and administered the survey questionnaire
on-site. The researchers gave adequate time and
provided assistance to the respondents in answering
the survey questionnaire to ensure its correctness.
Table 2 presents the distribution of the respondents
Ethical Considerations when they grouped according to their age. The
majority of the respondents belonged to the age
The researchers secured informed consent from the bracket of 26-30 that garnered 14 or 31.11% while the
participants to ensure their voluntary participation in age bracket ranging from 46-50 has 1 or 2.22%. This
the conduct of this study. The confidentiality and result implies that most of the teachers are belonged in
anonymity of the answers were maintained throughout younger generations that conform the study of Morallo
the study process. Likewise, the researchers strictly and Abay (2019).
handled and ensured the protection of the data,
Table 3.. Distribution of the respondents when
security, and privacy of the participants throughout the
grouped according to their civil status
study.
Table 1. Distribution of the respondents when grouped Table 3 illustrates the civil status of the respondents.
The majority of the teachers are married (27 or 60%);
according to their sex
some of them are single (17 or 37.78%); and, only 1 or
2.22% was widow. This is similar to the study findings
of Francisco (2020) that the majority of the public
school teachers are married.
Table 8. Experiential methods as used by teachers teachers because they allow the students to participate
in the assessment process to accommodate
heterogeneous classes by soliciting their cooperation
and collaboration of the students to provide guidelines
and record results according to the activity being
observed. It is comparable to the study by Pireh
(2014), which found that checklists and rubrics help
students write and are used as a self-assessment tool to
encourage students' performance. It also shows that
checklists and rubrics help teachers give constructive
feedback by establishing clear requirements that are
targeted at specific students, fostering clear
communication of writing objectives, and offering
clear and impartial feedback. However, the results of
this study contradicted the study of Effrosyni (2019),
Table 8 illustrates the identified experiential
the study findings show that the learning log entries
assessment methods utilized by the teachers. Among
and diaries were successfully used as an assessment
the fourteen (14) indicators of experiential assessment
tool to determine how well the students in the current
methods, the majority of the respondents have
responded that practical exams/performance and oral teaching environment had mastered the use of
exams are their most frequent assessment methods common reading strategies, strategic reading,
utilized in the classroom which both have 35 or 78% awareness of and use of global metacognitive reading
placed in the highest rank. However, the debriefing strategies, and the development of their ability to
interview is the least frequent assessment method construct meaning through reading. Hence, even
teachers utilized, placing at the bottom rank (6 or diaries and writing folders placed at the bottom, it can
13%). Results imply that teachers are after the be used in particular cases to assess the student’s
assessment methods that produce tangible results or performance.
learning outcomes involving performance tasks,
practical tests/tasks, and oral exams honing the Table 10. Factors influencing the assessment practices
communication skills and measuring the skills of the of Senior High School Teachers
learners. This result coincides with the findings of
Erdol and Yildizli (2018) and Rahman (2018) that the
assessment methods that solicit students’ performance
and oral questions are the most frequent assessment
methods used by teachers in the classroom.
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