New Assessment Methods & Benefits of Innovative Assessment

A. SHYAMALA DEVI,

Assistant Professor in Education,

Annammal College of Education,

Tuticorin.

What innovative assessment is NOT?

What is innovative assessment?

Ordinary Traditional Classroom

Classroom 1

Innovative Classroom

Classroom 2

New Assessment Methods

Open-book exams

Project Method

Oral assessment

Problem-solving Method

Role play Method

Open-book exams

Project Method

Oral assessment

Problem-solving Method

Role play Method

Benefits of Innovative Assessment

To improve the teaching-learning process.

Facilitates a ‘deep’ rather than a ‘surface’

learning.

Provides timely and constructive feedback.

Helps to realize the strengths and weakness.

Stimulates both the staff and the students.

Facilitate the slow learners.

Conclusion

• “Evaluation is a continuous process aimed at

helping the students to improve his level of

achievement rather than at ‘certifying’ the

quality of his performance at a given moment of

time”.

- National Policy on Education (1968)