Role and Purpose of Assessment in Teaching And

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Roles and Purpose of Assessmentin Teaching and Learning

Prepared by:

Ngu Sze Ling

Wong Li Siang


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Overview

Reasons / Purposeof Assessment

Assessment ofLearning /

Assessment forlearning

Types of tests:

ProciencyAc!ie"ement

#iagnosticAptitude and

Placement tests


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Reasons/Purpose of Assessment

Purpose

$!ildren

%amilies

&arly$!ild!oodTeac!ers

Public


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$!ildren

'dentify (!at c!ildren )no(/ specialneeds

#etermine appropriate placement

Select appropriate curricula to meetindi"idual*s needs


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%amilies

Pro"ide students*

progress and learning

Relate sc!ool acti"ities to

!ome acti"ities ande+perience


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&arly $!ild!ood Teac!ers

'dentify students* s)ills abilities and needs

Select suitable materials and !o( toimplement lesson

,onitor and impro"e teac!ing-and learningprocess

Report to parents of c!ildren*s de"elopmentalstatus


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T!e Public

'nform t!e public of

c!ildren*s ac!ie"ement

Pro"ide information relating

to student*s sc!ool-(ideac!ie"ement


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learning and of

learning

Assessment

%or learning

.f learning


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For Learning

elps teac!ersgain insig!t into

student*s

understanding 0plan and guideinstruction

Pro"ide feedbac)

to students

'ncludes cleargoals for learning

acti"ities

'n"ol"esteac!ers

students andparents

re1ecting one"idence


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Dierence between assessmentfor and of

For Dierence Of

T!roug!out teac!ing

and learning process

Process At t!e end of teac!ing

and learning process

To constantly ad4ust

instructional strategy

Purpose To ran) student*s

ac!ie"ement le"elsagainst a standard


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Teac!er*s Role in Assessment forLearning

'dentify students* needs and usedi5erent approac!es and strategies

suits t!eir needs*

Selecting and adapting materials and

resources


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Teac!er*s role in Assessment of

Learning

Reporting student*s learningaccurately and fairly based on

e"idence 2"ariety of conte+ts andapplications63

Need to pro"ide clear description of

intended learning


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!pes

oftests

Prociency tests

Ac!ie"ement tests

#iagnostictestsAptitudetests

Placement tests

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Pro"cienc! tests

To tap globalcompetence in a

language

Standardisedmultiple-c!oice

items on grammar"ocabulary reading

compre!ension andsometimes a

sample of (riting6

&+ample : Test of

&nglis! as a %oreignLanguage 2T&%.L3 ='nternational &nglis!

Language Testing

System 2'&LTS3


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Ac#ievement ests

Related directly toclassroom lessons

units or e"en a

total curriculum6

Limited toparticular material

co"ered in acurriculum (it!in a

particular timeframe

Ser"e as indicators

of features t!at astudents needs to(or) on in t!e

future

To determine t!eac>uisition of

course ob4ecti"esat t!e end of a

period ofinstruction


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Diagnostic ests

To pro"ideinformation about

t!e specic strengt!sand (ea)nesses of

learners6

To asses students*abilities to a more

specic le"el

&g: 'f a teac!er suspectst!at !is students !a"e

problem (it! a particulargrammatical structure !ecan conduct a diagnostic

test to conrm t!esuspicious6


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Aptitude ests

A test t!at predict aperson*s future

success6

To measure aperson*s capacity or

general ability tolearn a foreign

language

&g: ,odern

Language AptitudeTest 2,LAT3 =Pimsleur Language

Aptitude Test 2PLA73

,emorisingnumbers and

"ocabularylistening to foreign(ords and detectingspelling clues and

grammatical pattern


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Placement ests

To place a student intoan appropriate le"el

'ncludes sampling ofmaterial to be co"ered

in t!e curriculum

Pro"ides an indicationof t!e point at (!ic!

t!e students (ill nd ale"el or class to beneit!er too easy nor too

di?cult butappropriately

c!allenging


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