Assessment plays an immense role in today’s diverse classroom. It offers persistent response for the teachers, students and other stakeholders on the skills and learning styles and profiles of the students. It is an important part of the teaching cycle, the catalyst of all the other teaching learning components.

There are a number of practices that can be used in assessing students learning. Teachers should start implementing them in their class. The assessment of student learning starts with educational values and culture. Assessment is said to be most effective when it reflects understanding of learning as multidimensional, integrated and revealed in performance overtime. Assessment will work best when the programs it seeks to develop have clear, unambiguously stated purposes. It requires concentration to outcomes but also similarly to the experiences that lead to those outcomes.
Assessment works best also when it is continuing and not just periodic. It also fosters wider development when representatives from across the educational community are involved. This also makes a transformation when it begins with issues of use and illuminates questions that people are really care about. Assessment is most likely to lead to development when it is part of a larger set of conditions that encourage change. Furthermore, through assessment, educators meet responsibilities to students and to the public.
Assessment therefore, is very important to educators, we can do lot of things to help our students better understand our lesson. We just need to be flexible, practical and inventive. We, teachers, are here not just to teach our students to do things this way or that way, but to help them apprehend what they have to learn.

By: Rosie L. Basilio | Teacher III | Mariveles National High School – Poblacion | Mariveles, Bataan