"The purpose of assessments are to determine the learners` strengths and weaknesses so that the teacher can improve instructions to provide more opportunities for learners` cognitive growth and educational experience" - Reda Davin and Jane Sethusha.
Learners are assessed in order to track their progress and monitor their level of development as well for us as educators to provide assistance and guidance to parents and evidently improving teaching methods/techniques.
Evaluation is defined as a written document which describes the performance of the learners by a set standard; whereas assessments are ongoing processes of monitoring and observing a learner/s in their own space accordingly.
ASSESSMENT for English Home Language: Have them select the letter from those provided at the bottom and match them to the picture, and then rewrite the word in the space provided.
ASSESSMENT for Life Skills Lesson: Use Checklist below to assess whether the learner was[AJM[1] able to write their sentences on pets. For the Focus Group test whether learners are able to form coherent sentences from their drawings. Use Class Activity to assess whether learners are able to associate different items with a specific pet.