Effective Assessment Strategies for Students

This report highlights the importance of regular assessment activities in monitoring student performance and ensuring that they receive the right guidance. It discusses various assessment methods, with a focus on formative and summative assessments, and provides strategies for managing learner expectations and progress in clinical settings.

Reflection of my assessment processes in my teaching role

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Teaching is the activity of providing guidance to people. Teacher has important role to play
in providing medical staff with the proper training and knowledge about medical practices.
As Lack of skills and information about handling medical cases may have adverse effect
on patient health and quality of services provided by heath care institution. It is required by
teacher to adopt effective teaching method and conduct assessment. As this activity will
assist tutor in analysing that whether they have been successful in providing the
appropriate knowledge to medical staff. Teaching in clinical in clinical environment is
considered to be as most difficult and complex activity.
In this essay I will explain the assessments methods used by me and justification for the
same.
Main Body
According to my experience, I have identified different that teacher has to perform
different roles and responsibilities. I believe that teacher is accountable for behaviour and
management of activities conducted by their students or followers. As in the health care industry,
the tutor may be responsible for the treatment or medical errors that has occurred due to mistake
done by this student. The other roles and responsibilities that I have recognised is that teacher
should have knowledge or understanding about the learning capacity as well as capability of their
students. I have recognised that , this activity will assist teacher in identifying the learning style
that has been adopted by individual for gaining knowledge about the field.
As per teaching experience and identification of several issues in clinical environment, I
have recognised the three types of assessment tool that can be adopted by tutor for assessing their
students. Each form of assessment method has some advantages as well as disadvantages.
Among the several assessment tool , At initial stage of my teaching career I used to adopt
Formative assessment as the method of judging the knowledge and Understanding level of my
Student. In this technique, I asked various types of questions from learners in order to evaluate
that whether I have been successful in sharing right information or not. But I found this is a less
effective way of assessing single student. As individual may take much time to answer single

question asked by teacher. In such situation the assessment process can become much time
consuming activity. It is the appropriate method that can be utilised for assessing group of
people. I believe that technique that can be adopted by tutor for assessing whether their students
are absorbing the things that are taught is teacher can provide students an opportunity to make
open discussion about the subject (Rowley, Fook and Glazzard, 2018) The another technique to
conduct an assessment is providing the several options to member in group and asking them to
vote for same. As this strategy will assist them in judging the understanding level and analysing
the knowledge gained by their students. I have selected this two methods of assessment
considering that these tool may decrease a student's test anxiety that usually comes at the end of
a lesson. I believe that , it is required by tutor to be careful when allotting the time for executing
formative assessment as this factor may have adverse impact on the learning activities or further
process. I have used this method of assessment as it has allowed me to monitor the student
progress and provide them with appropriate guidance that will assist learner in making constant
improvement in their performance at workplace. I have found this assessment procedure easier as
well as more predictable as compared to other technique or tools. I have able to gain critical as
well as important information about learners comprehension throughout the procedure. I have
got an opportunity to provide quick response to their student and allow them to change their
attitude that will help learner in achieving success. Due to this assessment technique I have been
able to make suitable and effective decision for my students. As in clinical environment ,
teaching is difficult and crucial process I believe that this activity required special knowledge
and abilities for monitoring and controlling the activities of students. Formative assessment has
allowed me to examine my instructional or teaching practices and determining the activities that
has supported me in generating effective as well as desired outcome. I have selected Formative
assessment, this method has allowed me to increase student motivational level by establishing
short and long terms goals. The objective of formative assessment is to assist both teacher and
student in gaining academic achievement. I believe that This is the method which aid student in
reducing the performance gap and achieving learning goals. By adopting this method I have been
able to collected various information about student and able to recognise their needs. The other
assessment tool I have used in My teaching Career is summative assessment. It is also known as
cumulative assessment. In this assessment technique , I identified that teacher conduct test,

examination , ask question with the intention to capture the things that has been learned by
medical staff or student. I perceive that, This tool can also be used for identifying the quality of
learning and evaluating or determining the performance standards. This is the effective methods
of assessment, as I think that In medical field not only theoretical but also practical experience
is very much essential. It is essential for teacher to provide students an opportunity to participate
in activity or decision making process in health care institution. As a teacher , I think that it is my
duty to ensure that that student work should be less episodic and fractured than lesson-based. I
have selected formative and summative assessment tool as by realising that these techniques will
allow me to support my student to get both practical experience and theoretical knowledge about
the several operations in health care organisation which is necessary to provide satisfaction to
service user and perform specific duty in systematic as well as effective manner (Lin, Rattray
and Walker-Gleaves,2018)
I realised that, teacher is required to recognise the objective of conducting formative
assessment as well as monitoring their student progress. The several methods or tools that I have
realised that Planning formative assessment , that will help me in getting the information about
the student progress towards achievement of career objectives. The other effective tool that I can
use to evaluate student growth is checklist, recording observation, learning trackers, establishing
short as well as long term objectives. Facilitating continuous interaction and conducting group
discussion with students will allow me to identify the various issues or challenges faced by
student in gaining knowledge about particular activity or operation (Sweeney and Nielsen, 2018)
The other strategies that can be adopted for assessing the understanding level of students are
preparing and asking question , conducting test or examination at regular interval, etc. Other
technique is providing students an opportunity to work on or participate in particular project is
effective method that can be used for
Judging the knowledge of students or learners. I believe that communicating clear as well as
understandable goals or learning objectives will assist learner in identifying the way to learn
things and gain knowledge. As a teacher I give examples and uses models, pictures graph in
order to support my students in learning process. I think that providing I always provide
feedback or suggestion to my students. As it allows me to develop and maintain healthy
relationship with learner. Utilising my influencing power, I can motivate my students to improve

their performance at workplace. I teach students to self-assess and encourage them to establish
their own goals. The other tool that I have used is summative assessment. I perceive that the best
and appropriate way track student performance is to ask questions that will encourage students to
develop innovative thinking about particular concepts and motivate them to conduct
investigation that may further assist learner in developing the understanding about work they
need to execute within a company. Summative evaluation is another method that can be support
teachers in collecting and capturing as well as tracking assessment data. I found the other
methods of capturing the assessment data is utilisation of various statistical and mathematical
tool that is line graphs support teacher in identifying the student progress. I perceive that
technological advancement in present scenario has allowed teacher to increase their potential to
capture and store real time student data for long period. As per my experience, this factor has
enabled teacher to analyse the data and plan appropriate tactics or develop strategy that could be
applied to teaching practices for improving learning activity by students. I have made use of this
technology for examining my teaching practices and analysing the impact of same on student. It
has provided me to identifying the performance gaps and recognise suitable ways to improve my
teaching by making various changes in instruction pattern (Sleeter, 2018) Standard testing is
another tool that can be used for capturing as well as tracking assessment data. By adopting this
method I have experienced that , it is complex data system but this is affordable as well as easily
accessible to be used by tutors for tracking actual student data. I believe that , standard testing
can assist me in differentiating as well as personalising instruction. Formative assessment is
effective method that can be beneficial for teacher as well as students. These methods when
applied appropriately and systematically can bring drastic and positive improvement in
educational system. It can aid teacher in eliminating the legal obligation that individual may have
to face due to wrong medical practices by their students (Higgins, Morton and
Wolkenhauer,2018)
I believe that Feedback is the factor that have formatives nature. As it is not only
restricted to an end point process, and is mixed with goal setting, reflection and other evaluation
procedures. I have realised by reading or learning behaviourist theory that reinforcement has
both adverse and positive aspects. For instance, I have experienced that when I appreciate my
students for their performance they feel motivated and take interest in participating in other

activities too. I think that revision is another method that can help me in identifying the level of
understanding among student and providing them with suitable instruction. I have learned about
four level of feedback these are task, processing, self and self regulation. In Task feedback, as a
teacher, I provide students information about their level of performance related to an
assessment. This activity supports me in getting correct or incorrect responses or reaction. I
have adopted processing technique for providing feedback to student as it allows me to motivate
students to develop their own strategies for recognising their mistakes and planning tactics to
improve the same. I perceive that self regulation is the technique that guides learner or student
restrict or limit their dependency on the feedback provided by other people. It has allowed me to
motivate students for conducting self monitoring procedure. I believe that , it is essential for
teacher to provide effective and suitable feedback as this factor has direct effect on performance
of student. As this factor will assist student in improving their performance. As per various
theories, models, assessment and Evaluation, I believe that I need to develop my focus on
recognising the need of students and fulfilling the same. I have adopted differentiation strategy to
develop creative learning environment which is difficult to create in clinical environment. As this
is the very complex procedure before designing the same I have made various consideration
about the effect which the particular strategy will have on student behaviour and performance at
workplace. These strategies also have great impact on the task performed, outcome generated by
students. The objective of differentiation strategy is to assist learners or student with different
learning capacity to gain knowledge and develop about various practices in health care
organisation. It also intends to provide alternative methods of assessment which maximise
opportunities for children to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding (Lam, 2018)
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the report that assessment is the very essential procedure that
is required to be conducted by teacher at regular interval of time. As this activity will assist tutor
in monitoring the student performance and ensuring that they are successful in providing right
guidance to students. The project has highlighted the several assessment method among them
formative and summative assessment is the effective method. Study has also successfully
demonstrated the way teacher in clinical environment can capture and track assessment data.

The various strategies have been provided by assessment that can be adopted for
managing learner expectation and progress.

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