Assessment serves several important purposes: it determines if educational goals are being met, informs decisions about student placement and advancement, identifies student needs and areas requiring further instruction, and provides feedback to educators on curriculum and teaching methods. Effective assessment provides diagnostic feedback, helps set standards for understanding and mastery, evaluates student progress, and relates to how students are developing their knowledge and skills. It also motivates students to self-evaluate and improve their performance.

1. Introduction to Student
Assessment
Nithin K

2. Why Is Assessment Important?
• Assessment is an integral part of instruction,
as it determines whether or not the goals of
education are being met. Assessment affects
decisions about grades, placement,
advancement, instructional needs,
curriculum, and, in some cases, funding.

3. What Assessment do?
Provides diagnostic feedback
• What is the student's knowledge base?
• What is the student's performance base?
• What are the student's needs?
• What has to be taught?

4. Helps educators set standards
• What performance demonstrates
understanding?
• What performance demonstrates knowledge?
• What performance demonstrates mastery?

5. Evaluates progress
• How is the student doing?
• What teaching methods or approaches are
most effective?
• What changes or modifications to a lesson are
needed to help the student?

6. Relates to a student's progress
• What has the student learned?
• Can the student talk about the new
knowledge?
• Can the student demonstrate and use the new
skills in other projects?

7. Motivates performance
• For student self-evaluation: Now that I'm in
charge of my learning, how am I doing?
• Now that I know how I'm doing, how can I do
better?
• What else would I like to learn?
• For teacher self-evaluation: What is working
for the students?
• What can I do to help the students more?
• In what direction should we go next?

8. My Pledge to Students
• I will trust you until you give me reason to do
otherwise.
• I will respect you and work with you to solve
problems.
• I will promptly correct and offer feedback on
your work.
• I will work with you to meet learning goals.
• I will offer extra help and alternative
assessments should you require them.

10. Process of Assessment

11. Ultimate aim is overall progress