Assessment

It is a systematic ongoing process of monitoring learning which measures the student learning at the micro-level.

We have different kinds of Assessmente;

According to the moment: 

_ Initial (diagnostic)
_ Formative (progress)
_ Summative (final)

According to the Instrument:

_ Observation
_ Essays
_ Interviews
_ Performance tasks
_ Exhibitions and demonstrations
_ Portafolios
_ Journ
_ Teacher-created tests
_ Rubrics
_ Self-and peer-evaluation

According to the Agent:

_ Hetero-evaluation: Evaluator is different level (teacher-student).
_ Co-evaluator/peer evaluation: Students evaluate other members within the same group.
_ Self-evaluation: Students evaluate their own performance.

Why do we Assess?

To check the student´s knowledge: What do they know.
To check the student´s skills: What they can do and also how well they can do it.
To check the student´s progress: How do they go about the task of doing their work.
To check their effort and motivation: How do they feel about their work.

And their functions are:

_ Diagnostic, tells us what the student needs to learn.
_ Formative, tells us how well the student is going as work progresses.
_ Summative, tells us how well the student did a task at the end of a unit.

Psychometric and Edumetric Assessment

Edumetric Assessment (by norm), Compares the performance of each student with the average performance of the rest of the members of the group.


Psychometric Assessment (by criteria), Compares each student´s performance with absolute criteria that are previously defined in relation to which the position of each student is seen individually.

Purpose of the approach

First compares each student´s performance with pre-determined standards, then evaluates the efficiency of the teaching methods considering student´s performance and results and finally it locates the students in the teaching and learning process according to their level of learining domain.