The document discusses assessment in K-12 classrooms. It defines assessment as a joint process between teachers and learners that facilitates higher-order thinking skills. Assessment should be an integral part of teaching and learning. There are different types of classroom assessments, including observable and invisible assessments, as well as various assessment methods that teachers can use to evaluate what students know and can do. The document also discusses effective feedback, which should be specific, timely, and help students improve, versus ineffective feedback that is vague or infrequent. Classroom assessment results should be reported to students, parents, and other teachers.

1. Assessing
Learning in
Classrooms

2. LEGAL BASIS

3. Wandering Down Memory Lane
 What are your earliest, or most vivid,
memories of assessment?
 In primary? In secondary? In tertiary?
 Why are these experiences memorable?
 What was pleasing or frustrating for you?
 How have these experiences affected the
way you assess your learners now?

5. NCBTS Domain 5:
Planning, Assessing and Reporting
• Develops and utilizes creative and
appropriate instructional plan
• Develops and uses a variety of appropriate
assessment strategies to monitor and
evaluate learning
• Monitors regularly and provides feedback on
learners' understanding of content
• Communicates promptly and clearly to
learners, parents and superiors about
progress of learners

6. ACTIVITY
• In pairs, brainstorm ideas that are
related to the word “assessment”.
• Then as a group, consolidate and
organize these ideas through a
concept map.
• Lastly, write down your own
definition for “assessment”.

7. K to 12 Classroom Assessment
 A joint process that involves both teachers & learners
 An integral part of teaching and learning
 Facilitates the development of learners’ higher-
order thinking and 21st-century skills
 The “ongoing process of identifying, gathering,
organizing, and interpreting quantitative and
qualitative information about what learners know
and can do” (DO #8, s. 2015, p. 1)
 the learners’ zone of proximal development (Vygotsky
1978)

9. Types of Classroom Assessment
DO #8, s.2015, p2

10. observable
invisible

11. Assessment Methods
• What are you assessing – knowledge, skills
or both?
• Which method would best allow your
learners to demonstrate what they have
learned?
• Which method would make it easy and
manageable for you to gather evidence of
your learners’ progress over time?
DepEd, 2016

12. ACTIVITY
 What is Feedback?
 Fill in this table.
Effective Feedback Ineffective Feedback

13. Feedback
 Information about how a person did in
relation to what he or she attempted
 “The best feedback is highly specific,
directly revealing or highly descriptive
of what actually resulted, clear to the
performer, and available or offered in
terms of specific targets and
standards.” (Wiggins, 1998)

14. Feedback
EFFECTIVE INEFFECTIVE
Compares work to anchor
papers and rubrics
“Very good!”, “Try harder!”,
Mere score on a paper
Compares work against
exemplars and criteria
Students given only directions
on how to complete assignment,
not guidance on specific
standards of final products
Timely
Not timely (e.g. standardized
test)
Wiggins, 1998

15. Feedback
EFFECTIVE INEFFECTIVE
Frequent and ongoing Infrequent, given once
Use of descriptive language
focusing on qualities of
performance
Use of
evaluative/comparative
language, with no insight into
the characteristics that lead to
such value judgments
Grade or score confirms what
was apparent to the
performer about the quality of
the performance
The evaluation process is
mysterious or arbitrary to the
performer
Wiggins, 1998

16. Feedback
EFFECTIVE INEFFECTIVE
Given in terms of the goal
derived from exemplars
Derived from a simplistic goal
Enables performers to
improve through self-
assessment and self-
adjustment
Keeps the performers
constantly dependent on the
judge to know how they did
Wiggins, 1998

17. The Cognitive Process Dimensions
(DO #8, s. 2015, p. 4)http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

18. What is the Grading System?
 Standard & competency-based grading system.
 All grades will be based on weighted raw score of
the learners’ summative assessments.
 The minimum grade is 60, which is transmuted to
75 in the report card.
 The lowest mark on the report card is 60.
 Learners from Grades 1 to 12 are graded on Written
Work, Performance Tasks, and Quarterly
Assessment every quarter.
DO #8, s.2015, p9

19. How is learner’s progress
recorded and computed?
DO #8, s.2015, p10

20. How is Attendance Reported?
 learners must be in school every day
 attendance shall be recorded by teacher
daily
 Learner who incurs absences of more than
20% of the prescribed number of class or
laboratory periods during the school year or
semester should be given a failing grade
and not earn credit for the learning area or
subject (DO #8, s.2015, p.23)

21. To whom classroom
assessment reported?
to the Child
To Child’s remedial class teacher
Teacher of the next grade level
Child’s parents / guardians
DO #8, s.2015, p24

22. THANK
YOU
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