The document discusses major issues in student assessment and learning. It identifies five main issues: (1) Commercialization of assessment leading to poor test quality and lack of feedback. (2) Tests often only measure rote memorization and not higher-order skills. (3) Assessments need to consider different domains of learning. (4) Measurement issues include difficulties assessing affective and psychomotor domains and standardizing tests. (5) The assessment system relies too heavily on written exams without proper evaluation rubrics or performance testing.

1. ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
V.O.C. COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
S. ANTONY CHANDRALEHA B.Sc., B.Ed.

2. Major Issues in the
Assessment of Learning

3. Major Issues in the Assessment of Learning:
i. Commercialization of Assessment
ii.Poor test quality
iii.Domain Dependency
iv.Measurement Issues
v.System Issues

4. Commercialization of Assessment
Reliability
Privatization
Profit making tendency
Online assessment
Very poor Feedback
Validity

5. Poor test quality
Test serve as important tools in the assessment of students
learning achievement.
The class test conducted by teaches usually does not maintain
the required quality.
Most of the test check only rote memorisation and fail to test
higher order skills as reasoning analysis, creativity and
judgement.
Important characteristics of a good assessing
tool like Test:

6. Poor
Test
Quality

7. Domain Dependency
 Cognitive domain
 Affective Domain
 Psychomotor domain

8. Domain Dependency
Cognitive domain
1.Knowledge
2.Understanding
3.Application
4.Analysis
5.Synthesis
6.Evaluation
Affective Domain
1.Receiving
2.Responding
3.Valuing
4.Organizing
5.Characterization
Psychomotor Domain
1.Imitation
2. Manipulation
3.Precision
4.Articulation
5.Naturalisation

9. Measuring domain based
Students Involvement
Nature of Experience
The Intensity or Degree of Learning Experiences

10. Measurement Issues
Measurement in education means finding out
students learning achievement in the cognitive, affective
and psycho – motor domains.
It involves four activities.
i. Designing opportunities to gather evidences
ii. Collecting evidences
iii.Interpreting the collected evidences
iv.Acting on the interpretations.

11. Important Measurement Issues
4 types:
1. Issues in Measuring the Affective and Psycho-motor Domain Objectives.
2. Issues in Measuring the Achievement of cognitive Domain Objectives.
3. Awarding Marks in the Measurement of Students’ Learning
Achievement.
4.Use of standardized tests in measuring proficiency Achieved in
Learning.
5. Issues Related to other factors in Measuring learning Achievement.

12. In the assessment of learning there are two aspects:
1. Formative Tests
2.Summative Examinations
1. Issues in Measuring the Affective and Psycho-motor Domain
Objectives:
Teacher’s observation finds an important place. When
there is no proper teacher’s observation of student learning, it
leads to wrong interpretation of the measurements obtained.

13. Problems in using observation as an
assessment technique:
i. Likes and dislikes
ii. Expressed behavior
iii.Observer could obtain information related to one aspect of
student behavior only.
iv.Data recorded may not be accurate.
v. Natural behavior not getting expressed.
vi.Observation requires more time, more patiences and keen
insight.

14. 2. Issues in Measuring the Achievement
of cognitive Domain Objectives:
 Test items – one or two content areas only.
 Questions formed by unambiguous words.
 Knowledge level – more in numbers
 Application level – minimum number of question
 Without preparing the rubrics.
 Questions having short answers are framed as essay
type questions.

15. 3. Awarding Marks in the Measurement of
Students’ Learning Achievement:
Scoring key
Rubrics

16. 4. Use of standardized tests in measuring
proficiency Achieved in Learning :
We Should see whether
Standardization is done properly as otherwise
thruthfulness and reliability of the obtain
measures ments may get affected.

17. 5. Issues Related to other factors in
Measuring learning Achievement :
Don’t have proper Data
Not weighing in data properly
?

18. System Issues
Written examination
Evaluation Rubrics
Performance testing system

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