Ped-6-Lesson 1
Ped-6-Lesson 1
Ped-6-Lesson 1
Assessment of Learning 2
Mary Grace M. Adolfo, LPT
Assessment as an Integral
Part of Teaching
PED 6: Assessment of
Learning 2
WHAT IS
ASSESSMENT?
ASSESSMENT
1. A process of gathering
evidence of students’
performances over a period of
time.
2. Its purpose is to improve
students learning and provide
students, teachers, and parents
with reliable information
regarding student progress.
DIAGNOSTIC
ASSESSMENT
❑ Allows a teacher to determine
individual student’s prior
knowledge including
misconceptions before
instruction
❑ To test what students already
know and don’t yet know in
order to guide instruction
IS IT A GOOD PRACTICE FOR
TEACHERS TO ASSESS LEARNING
ONLY AT THE END OF THE LESSON?
FORMATIVE
ASSESSMENT
❑ Teachers monitor student
learning to get ongoing
feedback to improve their
teaching and for students to
improve their learning
❑ Students are helped to identify
their strength and weakness
FORMATIVE
ASSESSMENT
❑ Evidence-based improvement
of on-going teaching-learning
SUMMATIVE
ASSESSMENT
❑ Used to evaluate student
learning at the end of an
instructional period
❑ Bases for grades and report to
parents
WHAT IS TRADITIONAL
ASSESSMENT?
TRADITIONAL
ASSESSMENT
• Includes paper-and-pencil test.
• Includes selected-response type
and constructed-response type.
TRADITIONAL
ASSESSMENT
1. Selected-response type
(alternate response, multiple
choice, and matching type)
2. Constructed-response type
(short answer, essay, and
problem solving)
WHAT IS
AUTHENTIC
ASSESSMENT?
AUTHENTIC
ASSESSMENT
• Coined by Grant Wiggins
• Assess students’ knowledge and
skills in a context that
approximates the real world as
closely as possible.
• Also called as performance
assessment, non-traditional
assessment, and performance
assessment.
NORM-REFERENCED
ASSESSMENT
• Comparing a student’s
performance with the
performance of other students
6. Making standards and criteria public rather than private and secretive