MODULE 6: Innovative Technologies for Assessment Task in Teaching and Learning

LESSON 1. ICT and Assessment of Learning

What is ASSESSMENT?

is the systematic basis for making inferences about the learning and development of students. It is the process of defining, selecting, designing, collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and using information to increase students’ learning and development. 

4 TYPES of ASSESSMENT

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Formative Assessment

Formative Assessment

refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course. Formative assessments help teachers identify concepts that students are struggling to understand.

Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

        are used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period—typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year.

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Diagnostic Assessments

Diagnostic Assessments

is a form of pre-assessment that allows a teacher to determine students’ individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction. It is primarily used to diagnose student difficulties and to guide lesson and curriculum planning.

Authentic Assessment

Authentic Assessment A form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills What is the  Role of ICT in Assessment in Learning ?      can be used in testing to administer tests, to score the tests, to analyse the result and to facilitate teachers in assessing learning outcomes.

Author: Julina Dayag

Reference: Technology for Teaching and Learning 1
Authors: Purita P. Bilbao, EdD
               Ma. Asuncion Christine V. Dequilla, PhD
              Daisy A. Rosano, PhD
              Helen B. Boholano, LIB, EdD