The document discusses two assessment tools for teachers: anecdotal records and checklists. Anecdotal records allow teachers to document specific student behaviors over time and provide meaningful insights into their development, though they require careful observation to maintain accuracy. Checklists facilitate a simple yes-no evaluation of actions or characteristics, making them useful for assessing performance and products, especially at the primary level.

1. Topic: 1. Anecdotal Record, 2. Check List
Corse Name: Educational Measurement and Evaluation
Program: Masters of Education in Leadership and Management

2. Anecdotal Record
Informal device used by the teacher to record behavior of students as observe
by him from time to time. It provides a lasting record of behavior which may be
useful later in contribution to a judgment about a student. Anecdotal record is
factual description of meaningful incident at events that the teacher has an
observed.
What behavior to observe and record:
 Confining our observation to those area of behavior that can’t be assessed by other
meanings.
 Limiting our observation of all students at any given time only a few type of behavior.
 Districting the use of extensive observation of behavior to those few students who are
most in need of special help.

3. Purpose:
 To substitute for vague generalization about student’s specific exact description
of behavior.
 To stimulate teachers to look for information in example pertinent in helping
each student realize good self-adjustment.
 To understand individuals’ basic personality pattern and his reaction in
different situation.
 The teacher is able to understand her pupil in a realistic manner.
 Help the student to improve their behavior, as it is a direct feedback of an
entire observe incident, the students can analyze his behavior better.
 It provides an opportunity for healthy pupil teacher relationship.

4. Advantages:
 Use of formative feedback
 Provision of inside into total behavior incidents
 Economical and easy to develop
 Open-ended and can catch unexpected events
 Can select behavior or events of interest and ignore
others or can sample a white range of different behavior
(different time environment and people)
 Subjectivity, limited application

5. Disadvantages:
 It carelessly records the purpose will not be fulfilled
 Only record events of interest to the person doing the
observation
 Quality of record depend on the memory of the person doing
the observing
 Incident can be taken out of context

6. Checklists:
It is basically a method of recording whether a characteristic is present or absent
or whether an action was or was not taken, calls for a simple yes-no judgment.
A checklist is similar in appearance and use to the rating scale. The basic
difference between them is in the type of judgment needed.
Obviously, a checklist should not be used when degree or frequency is an
important aspect of the appraisal. The checklist is especially useful in primary
level, where much of the classroom assessment depends on observation rather
than testing. Checklists are also useful in assessing that performance that can be
divided into a series of specific actions

7. Conti…
Following steps summarize the development of a checklist
1 identify each of the specific actions desired in the performance
2 Add to the list those actions that represent common error
3 Arrange the desired actions in the approximate order in which they are
expected to occur
4 provide a simple procedure for checking each action as it occurs.

8. Conti…
In addition to its use in assessment of process, the checklist can also be used
to assess products, for this purpose, the form usually contains a list of
characteristics that the finished products should possess. In assessing the
products, the teacher simply checks whether each characteristic is present or
absent. Before using a checklist for product assessment, you should decide
whether the quality of the product can be adequately described by merely
noting the presence or absence of each characteristic.