5 Keys Ideas On Quality Assessment

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5 Key Ideas regarding Quality Assessment According to McMillan (2011) Ch. 1, pg. 2 ‘it is important to think about classroom assessment as a process that supports and enhances student learning, not something that merely documents what students know, understand, and can do. Therefore, teaching and assessment coexist in interaction, feeding and influencing each other. McMillan (2011) contends that quality assessment measures involve establishing credible performance standards, communicating these standards to the students and providing feedback to students on their progress. Scherer (2009) indicates that in her opinion, there is an over emphasis on test scores, and that multiple measures need to be used more effectively to achieve quality assessment. Understanding different ways of combining multiple measures assists in choosing appropriate measures for various educational purposes. McMillan (2011), Ch.1. p. 5, supports this and states that assessment ‘is much more than simply testing’. The first key idea is being assessment literate, as Scherer describes in her article, teachers need to have the ability to define and use the multiple measures appropriately, to reflect student learning. It is important to have clear purpose of the assessment and know that ‘different purposes require different kinds of information and different kinds of assessments’ Stiggins, (1995). Assessment becomes a teaching tool and takes into consideration both constructivist and cognitive theories, as summarised in McMillan (2011) Ch. 1, Table 1.2. The purpose is established and target outcomes and learning goals are set. The second key idea measurement as it develops the different techniques to gather information. This is where a teacher’s beliefs and values are important. As Killen, R. (2005) states ‘Our perspective, our lens and our filters’ (Killen, 2005, p. vii). The third key idea

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