SME 3023 TREND AND ISSUE IN EDUCATION FOR

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE

REPORT 5:

ASSESSMENT

NAME MATRIC.NO

NUR SHAFIQAH BT ABDUL RASHID D20121058738

NURUL HIDAYAH BINTI ABDUL HALIM D20101037326

TOPIC 5 : DISCUSSION ISSUES ON ASSESMENT.

INTRODUCTION

Assessment is a systematic process of gathering ,interpreting and acting upon data related to

student learning and experience for the purpose of developing a deep understanding of what

students know ,understand and can do with their knowledge as the result of their educational

experience. The goal of assessment, whether for an academic department or a program, is to

provide a clear conceptualization of intended student learning outcomes, a description of how

these outcomes are assessed and measured, a description of the results obtained from these

measures, and a description of how these results validate current practices or point to changes

needed to improve student learning.

Academic departments or programs need to constantly ask: What do we want students to be able

to do,know and appreciate and how do we know that students are achieving the intended learning

outcomes? After implementing an measuring plan and assessment student learning outcomes,

programs ,departments, and units need to analyze the results obtained and to make necessary

changes or improvements to the unit or program, the result is use.

Before beginning, it is important to have the proper structure in place to ensure that the process,

once in place, is self-sustaining. For this reason, each department will be recommended to

forms a Departmental Assessment Committee (DAC), which will ideally be comprised of at least

one representative from each program. Members of the DAC would understand the important

and purpose of assessment and would be willing to share their experyise,interest and knowledge,

in assessment with other faculty members in their department. A rotating chair model can be

implemented in order to alleviate faculty workload on the DAC.The assessment work and

process is more likely to become part of the University culture if faculty collectively buy into the

assessment procedures, ways to measures these outcomes, what the data suggest, agree on the

important learning outcomes and what the results mean for program improvement.

Sequence in preparing instructionally relevant assessment

There are some sequence in preparing instructionally relevant assessment which are instruction,

learning task and assessment.

Instruction

Indicates the learning outcomes to be attained by students

Learning task

Specifies the particular set of learning task(s) to be assessed

Assessment

Provide a procedure designed to measure a representative sample of the instructionally relevant

learning task

Assesment Process

Important of assessment

Assessment of student academic achievement is the process of evaluating whether students are

learning what we say they are learning. More specifically, assessment is the review, collection

and use of information to increase student’s learning. Assessment is a systematic process of

gathering ,interpreting and acting upon data related to student learning and experience for the

purpose of developing a deep understanding of what students know ,understand and can do with

their knowledge as the result of their educational experience.

Assessment is important for a several reasons. Assessment can provide a valueable information

on how well the student are meeting the learning outcomes for the course or program,or may

show how students perform compared to those at similar instituition. An effective assessment

program is required by the North Central Association for continuing accreditation as evidence of

the College's efforts toward continuous improvement of effective teaching and learning. Most

important, assessment is a tool that leads to a continuous cycle of improved student learning.

Purpose of student assessment

The purpose of student assessment are for help us to design and modify programs to better

promote learning and student success. Besides, it help us to provide common defination and

benchmark for students abilities that will enable us to act more coherently and effectively to

promote student learning. Student assessment can provide feedback, guidance and mentoring to

student so as to help them better plan and execute their educational program.

The function of assessment are diagnostic, formative and summative . Diagnostic is to tell us

what the student need to learn . Formative is to tell us how well the student is doing as work

progress. Summative is tell us how well the student did at the end of unit/task.

What can be assessed ? We can assessed the student learning characteristic such as the ability

differences and the learning style. Besides, we also can assessed the student motivational

charateristics such as their interest , self-efficiency and goal orientation. We also can assess the

learning luke content knowledge ,skills and ability to apply content knowledge.

Criteria in choosing an assesment method

In assessment , there are some criteria in choosing an assessment method. The criteria are should

be reliable and valid. The assessment that we choose should give benefits to all the student.It

should be simple to operate and not costly .It also should be seen by student and society in

general.

Assesment involved teachers,students, student’s peer, administer and parents. The information

from the assessment we use it to improve the focus of our teaching styles. Besides ,we use the

information to focus student attention of strenghts and weaknesses and to improve program

planning (program assesment).It also use for reporting to parents.

Types of assessment

There are several types of assessment ;

Classroom Assesment

Performance assesment

Portfolios

Rubric

Laboratory Performance

Classroom Assessment

Classroom assessment is the process of gathering evidence of what a students understands,knows

and is able to do. It help to identify student’s learning needs. Clasroom assessment plays an

important role in student achievement. There are two type of classroom assessment which are

Informal assessment and formal assessment.

Informal assessment is used to evaluate a student’s own performance and progress individually.

This assessment is based on day to day observation of students performances. The example for

informal assessment are asking question, listening to student discussion and conducting student

conference. The strength of this informal assessment is it easy to individualize and can be done

during teaching . The weakness of this assessment is it require a high level of teaching and it is

vulnerable to bias and mistakes.

Formal assessment is used to determine how well students that are used to determine how well

students have learned the material that is being taught in the classroom. It is planned in advance

and assess a predetermined content and skill domain. The strength of this assessment are it

allows the teacher to evaluate all sysmetically on the important skill and concept. Besides , it also

help the teacher determine how well students are progressing over entire year. This formal

assessment provides useful information to parents and administrators about the student

performance.

Performance assessment

Performance assessment is an assessment that elicits and evaluate the actual student

performances. There are two type of performance which are product and behavior. Product is the

assessment based on what student done such as drawing,science experiment , solution to

authenthic problem and term papers. The example for behavior performance are time trial for

running a mile , reciting a poem and dancing.

The strength of this assessment is it effective for assessing higher level thinking and authentic

learning. It is also effective for assessing skill and procedural learning . The performance

assessment is interesting ang it is also motivating for the students. The weakness of this

assessment are it hard to score fairly . Besides, this assessment is difficult for teachers to

construct it.

Portfolio

Portfolio is a collection of student samples that representing or demonstrating the student

academic growth. It can include formative and summative assessment . It may contain written

work, journals,maps, chart and survey.Portfolio are systematicc,purposeful and meaningful

collection of students work in one or more subject areas.

Portfolio is important not just even to students and teachers ,but it also important for parents an

administor. For students, portfolio demonstrates how the student think. It helps the student to

make choice. Besides, it also encourage the student to take responsibility for their own work and

its shows the academic growth of the student over time.For teachers the portfolio provides a

framework for organizing student work. This portfolio highlights the performance based on the

activities over the year. It also provides a framework for organizing students work and facilities

student information for decision making.

Portfolio gives the parent an opportunity to react to what their child is doing in school and their

development.Besides, it offer insight into what their children do in school,so the parent can

know how their children performance at school.For administers portfolio provide evidence that

teacher/school goals are being met. Its shows the growth of students and teacher and it provide

data from various source.

A portfolio contains three basic model which are showcase model that consist of work samples

chosen by the student, descriptive model that consisting of representive work of the student, with

no attempt at evaluation and the evaluative model that consisting of representative products that

have been evaluate by criteria.

Portfolio also has its own disadvantage. The disadvantage of portfolio is its require more time for

faculty to evaluate than test or simple-sample assessment. Its also required the students to

compile their own work , usually outside of class. Portfolio also may threaten the student who

limir their learning to crammingnfor doing it at the last minute.

Rubric

It is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student’s performance based on the sum of a full

range of criteria rather tahan a single numerical score. It is a working guide for students and

teachers, usually handed out before the assignment begins in orer to get students to think about

the criteria in which their work will be judged.

Rubrics are scoring criteria for

Free-response questions

Oral or powerpoint presentations

reflection./journal

Article revies or reactions

Essay

Summary

A fair assesment is one in which students are given equitable opportunities to demonstrate what

they know and can do.The classroom assesment is not only for grading or ranking purpose, its

goal is to inform instruction by providing teachers with information to help them make good

educational decisions.Assesment is integrate with students day-to-day learning experience rather

than a series of an end-of-course test.

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