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New Assessment Methods & Benefits of Innovative Assessment <ul><li>SHYAMALA DEVI, </li></ul><ul><li>Assistant Professor in Education , </li></ul><ul><li>Annammal College of Education, </li></ul><ul><li>Tuticorin. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>What innovative assessment is NOT? </li></ul>What is innovative assessment?

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Ordinary Traditional Classroom Classroom 1

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Innovative Classroom Classroom 2

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New Assessment Methods <ul><li>Open-book exams </li></ul><ul><li>Project Method </li></ul><ul><li>Oral assessment </li></ul><ul><li>Problem-solving Method </li></ul><ul><li>Role play Method </li></ul>

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Open-book exams

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Project Method

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Oral assessment

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Problem-solving Method

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Role play Method

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Benefits of Innovative Assessment <ul><li>To improve the teaching-learning process. </li></ul><ul><li>Facilitates a ‘deep’ rather than a ‘surface’ learning. </li></ul><ul><li> Provides timely and constructive feedback. </li></ul><ul><li> Helps to realize the strengths and weakness. </li></ul><ul><li>Stimulates both the staff and the students. </li></ul><ul><li>Facilitate the slow learners. </li></ul>

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Conclusion <ul><li>“ Evaluation is a continuous process aimed at helping the students to improve his level of achievement rather than at ‘certifying’ the quality of his performance at a given moment of time”. </li></ul><ul><li>- National Policy on Education (1968) </li></ul>