The document discusses assessment and evaluation in education. It defines assessment as gathering information about students' responses to educational tasks, usually in measurable terms, to assist with decision making, screening, monitoring progress, and assigning grades. Evaluation is defined as making systematic judgments about the value or effectiveness of measures based on criteria. The purposes of assessment include decision making, screening, monitoring progress, and determining instructional effectiveness, while the purposes of evaluation include facilitating learning, diagnosing problems, making decisions, and improving products and judging effectiveness. The document also discusses formative versus summative assessment and evaluation, as well as different types of evaluation based on time, manner, and focus.

1. ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
BASICS OF ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
S.RAJA KUMAR
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS
MADURAI
TAMILNADU

2. ASSESSMENT
• The word ‘assess’ comes from the Latin
word ‘assidere’ meaning ‘to sit with’.
• In assessment one is supposed to sit with
the learner. This implies it is something
we do ‘with’ and ‘for’ students and not
‘to’ students (Green, 1999).

3. • Assessment can focus on the
individual learner, the learning
community (class, workshop,
or other organized group of
learners), the institution, or
the educational system.

4. DEFINITION
• Assessment is the process of documenting,
usually in measurable terms, knowledge,
skill, attitudes, and beliefs.
• Assessment in education is the process of
gathering, interpreting, recording, and
using information about pupils’ responses
to an educational task.
(Harlen, Gipps, Broadfoot, Nuttal,1992)

6. PURPOSE
Gathers information to assist in
Decision making
Screening
Monitoring students' progress.
Assigning grades or ranks
Determining one's own instructional
effectiveness.

7. EVALUATION
• Evaluation is part of life, in our life we need to
make
• evaluation frequently
• – like which dress you want to wear in marriage
• – What you want to given in gift to your friend.
• In educational scenario evaluation have
important role in judging student progress to
know up to what extent student have achieved
the desired set goal.

8. • Evaluation implies a systematic,
continuous, process based upon
certain criteria process and
emphasis's the broader personality
change.
• Evaluation is an act or process that
allows one to make a judgment about
the desirability or value of a measure.

9. DEFINITION
• Evaluation is a systematic process of
collecting evidence about students’
progress and achievement in both
cognitive and non cognitive areas of
learning on the basis of which judgment
are formed and decisions are made.

10. SCOPE OF EVALUATION
• Value judgment
• Effectiveness of appraisal
• Provide baseline for guidance and counseling
• Placement and promotions in jobs.
• Development of attitude, interest, capability,
• creativity, originality, knowledge and skill etc.
• Development of tool and techniques.
• Development of curriculum and for its revision
• Helpful for curriculum planning and administers to improve the
curriculum pattern.

11. PURPOSES OF EVALUATION
• • Facilitate learning
• • Diagnose problems
• • Make decisions
• • Improve products
• • Judge effectiveness

12. TYPES OF EVALUATION
Evaluation
Based on
time
Formative
Summative
Based on
manner
Criterion
reference
Norm
reference

13. SUMMATIVE EVALUATION
• • M sriven in 1967 coined the term summative and
formative evaluation.
• • Summative evaluation is the commonly known type
of evaluation.
• It comes at the end of the term, course or programme
of teaching.
• Annual examination and half yearly examination in
school, public examination are the example of such
evaluation.
• Summative evaluation is done at the end of any
program or instruction.

15. VERTICAL EVALUATION
• It is vertical dimension seeing
whether the student has achieved
educational objective and how much
he has achieved.
• • Help to grade, rank, select the
students
• • It help in curriculum evaluation.

16. FORMATIVE EVALUATION
• On going, continuous evaluation.
According to AJ Nikto “it is concerned with
judgment made during the design and during the
development of program and are toward the
modifying, forming and improving the program
before it is completed”.

17. PURPOSE
• It Help in:
• – Motivation
• – Prediction
• – Diagnosis
• – Guidance

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