Summary: The Glossary Of Education Reform

Assessment is to assess the learning progress of a child; it will also help children to improve their progress. According to The glossary of Education Reform (2015), assessment means a wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students. According to Huba and Freed (2000), assessment is the process of gathering and discussing information from multiple and diverse sources in order to develop a deep understanding of what students know, understand, and can do with their knowledge as a result of their educational experiences; the process culminates when assessment results are used to improve subsequent learning.

According to G. S. Morrisson (2010) assessment is to identify what children know, the special needs of the children, determine appropriate placement, and plan appropriate curriculum to meet children’s individual needs.

The assessment that we had chosen to check for children’s understanding is formative assessment. According to Supporting learning and developing through assessment (2015), the importance of assessment is to help the teachers to build children as capable and competence learners to support their future learning and development. In our curriculum we focus on formative assessment. In formative assessment we divide into two parts which is informal assessment and formal assessment. According to The Glossary of Education Reform (2014) formative assessment means a method that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course. The reason why we choose formative assessment is that children can provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to

Teacher will also circulate the classroom, quizzing and posing questions to the student to check for students understanding then scaffold them if they don’t know how to do. Through documentation all the work that had been done by the children are all taken down as a record for later when teacher want to trace back what the children had done it is easier it is also a prove for the parents to see what the children had done in class throughout the semester. Teacher can take picture, video as a record. (child discovery centre) Teacher will also provide opportunities for students to present or show upon their learning and teaching experiences this will also her to build children’s confidence. Collecting, analysing, and providing feedback on in and out of class work this will help children to know what their mistake is and improve on the specific area that children are not good at. On the other hand, for formative informal assessment, we will use documentation to collect children’s art work and present to parents during parents teacher day. Besides that, teacher will have a progress book for each child to record children’s daily performance in general. For example, teacher will