Assessment in Learning

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Shift of Educational Focus from Content to scale by quantifying or assigning a number to a

Learning Outcome performance or any other assessment.


What is outcome-based education?
Outcome-based education means to start with a
clear picture of what is essential for
students to successfully do at the end of a learning
experience
3 Characteristics of Outcome-Based Education
 student-centered
 faculty-driven
 meaningfu
ASSESSMENT IN LEARNING 1 Types of Measurement
● Objective measurement
What is Outcome-Based Education? - It is based on how well people
- Outcome-based education means to start perform a task, irrespective of what
with a clear picture of what is essential for they experience while performing the task.
students to successfully do at the end of a And are not biased or prejudiced by
learning experience a person’s feelings or mental filters
● Subjective measurement

2 Types of Outcome - Refers to measure that have to do with


what people say they experience.
 Immediate Outcomes - It includes hearsay, opinion, data from
- These are competencies acquired upon very small samples, data from
completion of an instruction. These are ambiguously asked questions, data from
referred to as instructional outcomes. hand-picked samples, and assumptions or
- Examples: ability to communicate by guesses.
writing and speaking, mathematical
problem-solving skills,
 Deferred Outcomes What is an Assessment?

- Refer to the ability to apply the - Defined as a process for obtaining


competencies in various situations many information that is used for making
years after completion of a degree program. decisions about students; curricula,
- Examples: success in professional programs, and schools; and educational
practice, promotion in a job, awards policy.
andrecognition, etc - It means collecting information to help
decide the degree to which the student has
achieved the learning targets.
What is Measurement?
Measurement means determining the attributes or Types Of Assessment
dimensions of an object, skill or knowledge. It 1. 1. Placement - used to place students
pertains to the process of obtaining a measure on a according to prior achievement or
personal characteristics.
●Assessment AS Learning occurs when
2. Formative - done during instruction to students assess themselves. They monitor
monitor student’s level of attainment of the their own learning, ask questions and use a
learning outcomes. variety of strategies for learning based on
their own assessment.
3. Diagnostic - done during instruction to help Example: Peer assessment, self-
in the formulation of a plan for detailed assessment
remedial instruction; determines student’s
strengths and weaknesses.

What is an Evaluation?
- Defined as the process of making a
value judgment about the worth of a
student’s product or performance.
- Evaluations are the bases for decisions
about what course of action to follow.

Two Categories Of Evaluation


1. Formative Evaluation – means judging the
quality of a student’s achievement while the
student is still in the process of learning.
2. Summative Evaluation – means judging the
quality or worth of a student’s achievement
after the instructional process is completed. The
focus is on the result

ASSESSMENT FOR, OF AND AS LEARNING:


APPROACHES TO ASSESSMENT
● Assessment FOR Learning is done to
improve and ensure learning. (done, before
or during )

● Assessment OF Learning assists teachers


in using evidence of student learning to
assess achievement against outcomes
and standards for grading purposes.
It is done after instruction. This is
usually referred to as the summative
assessment. Example: quarterly exam

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