ED630 Presentation: Assessment and Evaluation in Education

This presentation provides an overview of assessment and evaluation in education, distinguishing between the two concepts and highlighting their importance in planning and expanding educational programs. It covers various types of classroom assessments, including formative, summative, observational, performance, portfolio, and authentic assessments, discussing their respective roles in improving student learning. The presentation also addresses the strengths and weaknesses of classroom assessment, emphasizing the importance of monitoring student progress and identifying areas for improvement. Furthermore, it explores strategies for achieving excellence through effective assessment and evaluation practices, such as aligning learning materials with curricular objectives and providing targeted support to students based on their assessment results. The presentation concludes by acknowledging the challenges associated with assessment, such as time consumption and potential for superficial knowledge measurement, and proposing solutions to mitigate these issues. This student-contributed document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study tools and solved assignments.

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Assessment and Evaluation
Evaluation

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 Assessment and evaluation uses data to plan and expand
educational program. McMillan, (2010) highlights that the
expansion of educational program is achieved by
implementing classroom assessment and evaluation precisely.
 Effective appraisal and valuation are joint into all features of
curriculum, giving both educators and learners with pertinent
and beneficial information to gauge progress and efficiency of
material and processes
 Example, using the determining the success rate of the
students to come with better ways of developing student
skills.
Introduction

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 Assessment is the classroom examination to provide valuable
information response for the upgrading of education and
learning
 Evaluation uses procedures and measures in judging how a
student has learned and understood the material for the purposes
of rating and reporting.
 The basic differences between evaluation and assessment is that
assessment is process oriented while evaluation is product
oriented (McMillan, 2012)
 However, both assessment and evaluation plays important role
in scrutinizing and refining the performance of a student.
Assessment versus Evaluation

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Formative valuation is the type of assessment that give
information to learners and educators that is useful in
improving education and learning
Summative assessment refers to the assessment that occur
after a unit coverage; it intends to capture what the learner
has gained and judge the performance against some
standards
Observational assessment is a type of formative assessment
that involves teachers circulating classrooms to monitor the
progress of the learner’s and intervene when necessary.
Types of classroom assessment

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 Performance assessment need learners to perform as a
way of displaying that they comprehend class work.
This assessment appraises reasoning process (Cauley,
& McMillan, 2010)
 Portfolio assessment tests the progress of the learner
over the course of the term. It includes all the learner’s
work in a specific area.
 Authentic assessment is the type of assessment that
need learners to do complex chores representative of
events normally done out of school environment.
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o To identify learner’s weaknesses and strengths. Assessment assist
educators to identify learner’s strengths and flaws. This is
essential especially when learners are entering new grades.
Assessments like problem-solving tests assist educators to
measure the mastery of content of the learners.
o To monitor learner’s progress (Dixson, Worrell, 2016). Educators
uses classroom assessment to monitor learner’s understanding of
the concepts taught. This notifies educators in lesson preparation,
assisting them identify areas that require more review.
o To assess learner previous knowledge. Before starting a new
topic, assessment can notify educators of their learner’s previous
experience of a specific concept.
The importance of classroom assessment

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 They can have negative impact on learner’s motivation,
especially for learners who performs below mark level.
 They can gauge the wrong things. For instance,
summative assessment can not really tell if the student
understood the content taught.
 They can have reliability and validity errors
(McMillan, Venable, & Varier, 2013).
 It requires teachers to sacrifice a lot of time assessing
during the lesson and may not finish the content at the
stipulated time.
The limitations of classroom assessment

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Both evaluation and assessment lead to excellence this is because
they are both intertwined. While evaluations concerns making
judgement, assessments involves correcting performance’s
deficiencies in learner’s performance. Below are some ways of how
we can achieve excellence:
1) Teachers to plan their learning materials each week to have its
distinct curricular objectives
2) Educators to teach learners on those objectives
3) Educators to assign learners to reteach or enrich sittings based
on the learner’s assessment grades
4) Teachers to lead students in enrich or reteach sittings everyday
(Afflerbach, 2017)
How to achieve excellence

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The main purpose of assessment is to expand
Student knowledge (Marx, 2007).
When learners are assessed an information about their
performance level is gathered. Evaluation is the process of
comparing learner’s performance with other learners or
with a particular set of principles.
Conclusion

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 Consumes a lot of time
 Costly in terms of effort and time
 measures only superficial knowledge
 The best surveys are challenging to develop
 Some assessments are labor demanding to design and
implement for students
 Susceptible to learner theft
Challenges in assessment

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 The problem of authentic assessment is that it is an old
school assessment and thus it is crude measurement of
student’s learning
 It is very demanding to execute the portfolio
assessment, it is time consuming and requires
discipline. (Wiliam, & Thompson, 2017)It is Very
challenging to assess learners objectively using this
method since it has no established grading criteria.
Other challenges in assessment

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 The solution to authentic assessment challenge is to
build a better test
 Portfolio assessment challenges is dealt with by
developing a particular, able to be gauge standards for
observing and evaluating
 Assessments must be cautiously based on faculty
appraisal and determination of match amid assessment
content and curriculum content (Zarinsefat,& Henke,
2015)
How to deal with assessment challenges