observing assessment as learning practices ( self-assessment)

ANALYZE

1. If the student is at the heart of all assessment, then all assessment should support student learning. Do you agree? Why or why not?

Yes, I agree because assessments exist for the students to improve or master their skills. Assessments are made to help the teacher achieve her objectives and for the students to become better to best students.

2. Does assessment as learning have the same ultimate purpose as assessment for learning?

The purpose of assessment is to gather relevant information about student performance or progress, or to determine student interests to make judgments about their learning process. Assessment FOR learning embeds assessment processes throughout the teaching and learning process to constantly adjust instructional strategy. Assessment AS learning occurs when students are their own assessors. Students monitor their own learning, ask questions and use a range of strategies to decide what they know and can do, and how to use assessment information for new learning.

REFLECT

The primary purpose of assessment is not to measure but to further learning. Reflect on your personal experiences of assessment in school. Were you given opportunities for self-assessment? If yes, what was its impact on your learning?

I remembered when I was in high school days our teacher asked us to write a self-evaluation essay and I complain because I thought it was useless or a tiring task to do but when I realized, what I have done all through out the years of schooling, I made a difference to myself and on my learning. This kind of activity gave us an opportunity to assess our selves, if we made progress or not.

SHOW Your Learning Artifacts

1. My Accomplished Observation Sheet

2. My Analysis

My Reflection