3. Learning goals and success criteria
1. Formative and summative assessment.
Assessment
means judging students’ performance by collecting information
about it. The assessment of learning and teaching can be viewed as two
complementary and overlapping activities that aim to benefit both the quality of
student learning and the professional development of the instructor/teacher.
Assessing learning alone is not sufficient because the ultimate success of students
is also dependent upon their motivation and commitment to learning. Similarly,
assessing only teaching behaviors and course activities is not sufficient because
qualities of the instructor may be appreciated by students but not optimally helpful
to their learning and growth. Done in tandem, assessing teaching and learning can
help instructors improve and refine their teaching practices and help improve
students’ learning and performance.
Assessment can be formal and informal, formative and summative.
Informal assessment
–
when we observe learners to see how well they are doing
something then give them comments on their performance.
Formal –
when we
assess learners through tests or exams and give their work a mark or a grade
After we have finished teaching a part of a course we may want to find out
how well our students have learnt it. This is called
formative assessment
.
We use
the information from formative assessment to decide if we need to continue
teaching this area or not, and to give learners feedback on their strengths and
difficulties in learning in this area.
At the end of a term or course we assess learners to see how well they have
learnt the contents of the whole course. This kind of assessment is called
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