EDAHOD5 Assignment 1

EDAHOD5: The Teacher as an Assessor

Assignment 1: Establishing guidelines that can be used to plan an assessment activity

Bronwyn Huber, Student Number 58127550

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Question 1

When planning an assessment, it is important that certain guidelines are followed in order to create an assessment that is fair. I have made use of the prescribed textbook as well as the CAPS document to formulate ten guidelines that are used to prepare assessment activities in my subject. The guidelines have been placed into the table below as well as a brief description/explanation of each.

Guideline Description/ Explanation

1) The type of questions and scope must be sufficient and cover the spread of work done  The types of questions being asked and the spread

Summative assessment – applied as a final assessment on a learning unit. It is used to determine whether learners are ready to progress to the next phase

Systemic evaluation – evaluates the appropriateness of the education system (eg. ANA)

 There are multiple forms of assessment and the form chosen must correlate with the objective of the assessment (eg. Baseline or summative etc). Possible assessment forms are:

Observation-based – observation of classroom or groupwork interaction, observation of a practical demonstration

Self-assessment, peer and group assessment – assessing of their peers. According to CAPS this is an informal assessment and is not recorded.

Paper-based – tests, exams, case studies, assignments and research projects

Oral assessment – interviews, speeches, prepared and unprepared reading

Practical tasks – experiments, building of structures, drawings and