Lesson 1: Assessment Techniques
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The following list highlights techniques
and tasks that can be used to help a teacher evaluate learner’s achievement and
progress throughout the teaching and learning process.
- Homework/Assignments: refers to tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside of the classroom. Common homework assignments may include a quantity or period of reading to be performed, writing, problems to be solved, a school project to be built (display), or other skills to be practiced.
- Class work: are tasks that are to be completed during the class period.
- Group work: a form of cooperative learning. Three or more learners work together on a project or task, which helps to develop communication skills, collaborative skills, critical thinking skills and positive attitudes.
- Quiz: short and informal questions usually administered during the class period.
- Oral presentation: learners use oral skills to share information with the whole class.
- Debate: One learner, or a team of learners, competes against another learner, or team of learners, to logically argue issues.
- Oral questioning: a process in which the teacher asks questions to learners to evaluate their knowledge and understanding.
- Observation: An informal process in which the teacher gathers information by watching learners interacting, conversing, working, playing, etc. A teacher can use observations to collect data on behaviors that are difficult to assess by other methods (attitude toward problem-solving, ability to work effectively in a group, persistence, concentration, and completion of tasks). It helps teachers to make notes on observations so that they remember and can respond appropriately.
- Dance/movement: Learners demonstrate physical skills by moving rhythmically to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures. Dance can be used to show comprehension of events through physical story-telling (like drama).
- Gymnastic/Athletic competition: Competitive sports can be used to evaluate achievement in physical education as well as to assess attitudes and values, such as teamwork and cooperation. Checklist and rating scales and scoring rubrics can be used.
- Dramatic reading: learners must read a passage, demonstrating appropriate verbalizations, oral and elocution (voice production) skills.
- Role Play (Enactment): a performance which requires a learner to act out. For example, learners may dramatize their understanding of fictional characters or historical persons by acting a role showing ideological positions and personal characteristics of these persons.
- Interview: learners respond to questions concerning his/her learning or are asked to conduct an appropriate question/answer process with another person to gain information.
- Musical recital: a learner performs music in front of an audience.
- Graph/table: a visual representation of numerical or information relationships.
- Illustration: learners create a visual representation to clarify or explain content (objects, people, events, or relations).
- Story/play: learners write a story or theatrical work, given guidelines or topics.
- Poem: a composition in verse rather than in prose.
- Portfolio: Learner portfolios are a collection of evidence, prepared by the learner and evaluated by the teacher, to demonstrate mastery, comprehension, application, and synthesis of a given set of concepts.
- Art exhibit: art created by learners is displayed for others to view (other learners, parents, or community members may be invited to view).
- Science project: Learners plan, carry out and present a science research task.
- Video/audiotape (performance in context): a video and/or audio filmed, taped or televised which focuses on real-life applications and mastery of skills.
- Conference: a process which requires a learner to meet with the teacher and/or other learners for the purpose of exchanging views.
- Jigsaw group projects: In jigsaw projects, each member of a group is asked to complete some part of an assignment; when every member has completed his assigned task, the pieces can be joined together to form a finished project.
- Book review: Learners are given books appropriate for their level and then required to tell what they read from the book, discuss what they learn from the book, etc.
- Jury Trial. Divide the class into various roles (including witnesses, jury, judge, lawyers, defendant, prosecution, and audience) to deliberate on a controversial subject.