The role of evaluation

Teaching-Learning Process  (summary)

To influence the pupil behavior in the desired direction, the teacher must be conscious of the goals and aims of education, he must formulate instructional objectives.

The teacher also should construct effective learning experiences and effective communication channels.

And finally, he or she will determine the extent to which these objectives are being achieved, learner appraisal.

Objectives:  The desired behavior that students should acquire, which is guided by the school and the teacher and the teacher must be conscious of the goals and aims of education.

Effective learning experiences: Should be focused on effective communication channels in order to acquire the desired behaviours.

Learner appraisal: The teachers will determine the extent to which the objectives are being achieved.



The objectives are determinant  in the learning experiences, and the primary focus of appraisal is on gathering evidence on the extent to which the objectives of the programme have been attained.

One example of learning appraisal would be the development of deductive thinking among students.

Learning experiences provide examples for the development of appraisal tasks, it gives ideas and suggestions for learner appraisal and also the objectives should furnish ideas for appraisal situations.

And also appraisal information can furnish valuable information that may result in the modification of learning experiences and modifications or elimination of some objectives. For example trough appraisal we can answer the following questions:
Should the objectives be modified or perhaps eliminated? Are the objectives realistic for the particular group of learners? Are the necessary references available for achieving the objectives?


Role of Evaluation

Evaluation is very useful to bring improvement in teaching and curriculum, provide accountability to the society, parents and to the education system.

Psychometric and Edumetric approaches

   
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1) Which figure results from the operation shown? 

QUESTIONS

1) What type of test is this?

It is a Psychometric test, which is made by norm and it compares performance of each student with the performance of the average performance of the members of the group.

2) What is its aim?

Its aim is to find the "best for", it does not really evaluate the skills of each student, it just compare you with the rest of the group and tries to measure the group performance.

3) What is it trying to measure?

It is trying to measure how fast the person is, compared with a group of people.

(Aswer as many questions as you can in 20 minutes)

Need and importance of evaluation

1) List 2 activities form classroom situations which involve decision making by the teacher.

- A debate, where the topic is "Abortion", so once the activity starts, the teacher realize that none of the class understand much about the abortion, so the teacher has to make a decision by asking the students to research more about the topic and then continue with the activity.

- During a reading comprehension activity, the teacher realizes that students were not able to answer the questions from the reading, so then the teacher has to make a decision by strengthening the students with some more reading skills. 

2) List 2 important aspects related to the teaching process in which evaluation is needed.

Evaluation is needed when the teacher realizes during the teaching process that most of the student have acquired most of the knowledge according to the defined objectives.

Introducing the concept of Evaluation

1) In what way would evaluation serve you as a teacher? What would you use it for?

Evaluation plays an important role in deciding what the learners learn and what the teachers teach and through evaluation, we can judge the development and progress the students are making in the class. I would use it to check the effectiveness of my own teaching in the classroom so that I can improve my teaching skills to achieve the goals.   

2) In an ideal school, how do you imagine students' evaluation would be like?

In an ideal school, evaluation would be high quilified because teachers are well trained and aware of the concept of evaluation and what is involved in its process.

3) In general, what do you think students expect from an evaluation?

They expect a meaningful evaluation and according to the objectives given at the beginning and they also expect consideration of their difficulties and experience based.

4) What types of evaluations do you know?

- Alternative assessment

- Multiple choice assessment

- Open questions assessment

- Oral and writing skill assessment

- Speaking and listening assessment