Assessment is probably the most important thing we can do to help our students learn. We may not like it, but students can and do ignore our teaching; however, if they want to get a qualification, they have to participate in the assessment processes we design and implement.
- Do all the assessment at the end of the learning
- Make sure you know the identity of the student who
- To be fair to all students, give each an identical test.
- Always plan at least some questions on material that
programme. You can’t assess students until you have
taught them everything, so all the assessment needs to take
place at the very end of the process. If they then fail, it just
shows that they weren’t very good.
has done each piece of work. Then you can check
whether the standard is what you would expect of that
student. You can then correct marks if you think that a poor
student has over-performed or a strong student has not done
themselves justice. You can normally tell early on what kind
of a degree a student will get and expectations are rarely
proved wrong.
If they have problems with it because of so-called ‘special
needs’, that’s their problem.
you haven’t covered with the class. This sorts out those
students who read around the subject and those who don’t.
But don’t actually tell them that this is what you’re planning
to do, or the strategic students may read more extensively.
By: Anniebelle I. Galindo | Teacher III | Lamao Elementary School | Limay, Bataan
