Assesment Concepts And Issue

 

The process of determining a student's competency attainment both during and after the learning process includes assessment. Experts assert that assessment is a process that aims to improve student learning, comprehend teaching and learning, and shift the emphasis from evaluation based on teaching to assessment based on student learning (Víctor et al., 2013).

The integrated nature of assessments reveals all facets of students' ability in terms of their knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values. The purpose of assessment is to find out overall information, both the results and the learning process, to monitor the learning progress achieved by students.Still, standards must be used in assessment. Educators can track their students' growth in terms of attitudes, knowledge, and skills by using assessment standards.

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Here are some key assessment issues:

1. Validity and Reliability: Ensuring that assessments reliably yield consistent results over time and accurately measure what they are designed to measure (validity) is one of the main challenges in assessment.

2. Bias and Fairness: Regardless of a student's origins, culture, or traits, assessments ought to be impartial and devoid of bias. In varied educational environments, issues of linguistic and cultural bias in assessments are especially pertinent.

3. High-Stakes Testing: Concerns are raised over curriculum narrowing, teaching to the test, and uneven educational outcomes when high-stakes tests are used for accountability purposes. Examples of these tests include standardized testing for school ranking or teacher assessment.

In  conclusion, evaluation is more than just assigning grades,it also involves tracking students' comprehension, growth, and accomplishment of learning objectives. But assessment is more difficult than we may think, and there are issues with how it is conducted.

 

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