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PURPOSE OF ASSESSMENT
DR. TERESA DIEZ SOLERO
PROFESSOR
ANALYN A. CARAG
Masterand
ASSESSMENT
- It is an integral part of the educative
process.
- It is used by teachers in collecting informal
and informal information about what and
how their students are learning.
- They student tests and assignments,
listen to small-group activities and
observed students engaged in
structured and unstructured activities.
- When teachers systematically collect the
right kinds of information and use it
effectively, they can help their students
grow as thinkers and learners.
- In some contexts, the term assessment
and evaluation are interchangeable.
- We use the term “assessment” to refer
specifically to all kinds of methods and
strategies that provide information
about a student’s learning.
Why Assessment is Useful?
 It is based on educational objectives
formulated in terms of the principles of
growth and development.
 It includes all aspects of the changes in
the behavior of the students/ learners.
Why Assessment is Useful?
 It is used to improve teaching
and learning.
 To know if students can apply
what they have learned in
authentic situations.
What do we assess?
 We assess learning, and we evaluate
results in terms of some set of criteria.
 Evaluation Assessment is most useful to
teachers and Evaluation is most useful to
students administrators, and parents
.Assessment focuses on the individual,
group , and students.
Why is it important to assess?
 To find out what the students know
(knowledge).
 To find out what the students can do,
and how well they can do it (skill;
performance)
To find out how students go about
the task of doing their work (process).
To find out how students feel about
their work (motivation, effort).
Assessment serves two purposes:
1. To facilitate Instructional Function
- it yields data to establish the extent of
knowledge, skills, habits and attitudes
acquired by the students/learners.
- it specifies the strength and
weaknesses of instruction and the
needs and problems of the students
which must addressed.
2. To facilitate administrative
and supervisory functions
- Achieving and maintaining
quality instruction is one of the
foremost goals of management.
- standards are being set to
determine who should be
admitted
2. To facilitate administrative
and supervisory functions
- Achieving and maintaining
quality instruction is one of
the foremost goals of
management.
- standards are being set to determine
who should be admitted into the
program and who should be retained
and to what classification they belong.
- to the curriculum planners, the result of
assessment can give them hard facts as
bases for revising and enriching the
curricula.
3. To foster better parent-teacher
relationship.
- assessment is a means by which
teachers can keep the parents
informed of the progress made by
their children.
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References: Theories and Principles of Educational Technology,
2008 ed. By Candelaria D. Garo.
Intel Education website.
Purpose of assessment