Assessment plays a vital role in today’s differentiated classroom. It provides continuous feedback for the teachers, students and other stakeholders on the skills and learning styles and profiles of students. It is an important part of the teaching cycle, the springboard of all the other teaching learning components.
Below are 9 principles of good practice for assessing student learning:
- The assessment of student learning begins with educational values.
- Assessment is most effective when it reflects an understanding of learning, as multidimensional, integrated and revealed in performance overtime.
- Assessment works best when the programs it seeks to improve have clear, explicitly stated purposes.
- Assessment requires attention to outcomes but also equally to the experience that lead to those outcomes.
- Assessment works best when it is going not episodic.
- Assessment fosters wider improvement when representatives from across the educational community are involved.
Assessment makes a difference when it begins with issues of use and illuminates questions that people are really care about.
By: Elma R. Baciles | Teacher III | EC Bernabe Bagac National High School | Bagac, Bataan
