Lesson 3: What, When, How and why assess
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How
to assess What is assessed depends on the task set
and the way the question is phrased. One
question can be assessing not only knowledge and understanding, but also
skills, attitude and generic competencies. Questioning can be oral or written
either for diagnostic purposes, to aid learning during the lesson or to test
learning achievement through exercises, assignments, tests, and examinations. One must ensure that the verbs used in the
formulation of questions do not require memorization or recall answers only but
testing also skills and attitudes as well as generic competencies as stated in
the syllabus (e.g. arrange, point out, design, draw, organize, tabulate,
develop, integrate, apply, discover, survey, produce, examine, discuss,
analyse, justify, create, perform, conduct, prepare, differentiate, relate,
compare and contrast, suggest, comment on, show, match). This is the end of Lesson 3.