This part of the module familiarizes you in the Language of Educational Assessment and further re-orient you about the relationship of assessment to learning and teaching. This will contain lessons concerning the basic concept of measurement, evaluation, testing and assessment.
Lesson 1: Educational measurement, evaluation, testing, and assessment
Measurements:
Measurements is involve numbers, dimensions, qualifications of qualities or attributes. In education measurements is the way to generate data such as scores in every individuals, or to finalize students grades or performance.
Assessment:
Assessment is a comprehensive process or activity to gather information such as specific conditions or situations. It contains measurements data that can be easily understood. Assessment is more wider or broader than testing. It can be includes all the possible tools like, questionares, schedules and inventories.
Testing:
Test are a form of assessment that logically created. These can be apply mostly at the end of every lessons, to measure the capability of learning.
Evaluation:
It refers to the process of examining the performance of student. It also determines whether or not the student has met the lesson instructional objectives.
Lesson 2: Outcomes, indicators, benchmarks, norms, criteria, and standards
Outcomes:
It refers to the expected result or consequences that need to achieve by the end of a certain action or situation.
Indicators:
It refer to measurable signs or criteria that are used to assess the performance, progress, or quality of educational processes. Indicators can include various factors such as teacher effectiveness, student achievement, and educational success.
Benchmarks:
It refers to a standard as reference or indicators of something to be expect in a particular thing that need to achieve and measured.
Norms:
is a educational approach guided by established standards. norms represent expected levels of achievement, behavior within a certain educational system.
Criteria:
refers to a standard where it will the basis to evaluate or assess that students need to meet in order to demonstrate the efficiency of something.
Standards:
It refers to a measurable specific objectives that are set for students. This will serve as the outline of the students on what they are expected to know and be able to do.
Lesson 3: The relationship of assessment to learning and teaching
Assessment plays a vital role of both teaching ang learning. It guide teachers in understanding of what and how to teach students by identifying their strengths and weaknesses through assessment. Also, it help to measure the progress and effectiveness of the learning process of the students.