1. Assessment & Reporting
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CONNECT CLEAR TARGETS TO ASSESSMENT
QUALITY
After having studied Unit 2B, explain three ways in which clear targets are a necessary
precursor to assessment quality. Provide examples from your own experience to
illustrate the connection between clear targets and assessment quality.
Learning targets are necessary to assessment quality because...
- They help students to achieve success. When students have a clear idea of
what they are going to learn and what they have to do, they are more likely to
achieve success.
- They make students feel they take part in their own learning so they
consider it more important and they improve it. When teachers elaborate
students-friendly learning targets and communicate them to the students, they
feel that they are part of the learning process and teacher is taking them into
account because she/he is concerned about making learning targets easier for
students to understand and communicate them. It makes students want to
improve their learning process.
- They make clear to the students how they will know if they have done it
successfully or well. Having clear learning targets helps to get the assessment
quality because if facilitates students to know if they are doing it properly or not
without having to ask teachers. Students know what they have to do in order to
do it successfully because they have been told the learning targets.