Principles Of Assessment Essay

According to Grevells (2012), assessment should be planned for and carried out on an individual basis. Assessment planning should be a two-way process (Shannon & Wavers, 1949) between me and my learners. I plan what I am going to do and learners need to know what is expected from them. If my learners are all working towards the same assignment or an assessment strategy, I agree on target dates or criteria for completion and discuss any specific requirements my learners may have. The Principles of assessments are consistent, accessibility, detailed, earned and transparent. Think about these theories and principles of assessment I designed my assessment strategies. For example, in my teaching practice I use assessment strategies resembling to

For example, I use my assessment strategy (1) Ask learners to reflect means during the last few minutes of class, ask learners to reflect on the lesson and write down what they have learnt. Then ask them to consider how they would apply this concept or skill in a practical setting. (2) Peer instruction, this strategy, perhaps the most accurate way to check for understanding, is to have one learner try to teach another learner about what he/she have learnt. If he/she does that successfully it is clear he/she understood my lesson. So these strategies are fair because these are appropriate to all learners at a required level, is inclusive for example available to all. Valid, assess what is supposed to do. Reliable, assess in a consistent manner, when I use peer instruction strategy anyone can assess my learners understanding, it is same answer to everybody. Sufficient, enough to cover the content criteria, when ask a leaner to reflect. If he/she has reflected well that means the content criteria

The minimum core skills provide the essential knowledge, skills and understanding. That enables learners to function confidently, effectively and independently in life. I am required to include the three functional skills within my assessment method to help improve the literacy, numeracy, and ICT skills of my learners. For example to promote literacy/language I do reading and writing. For speaking: discussions, question and answer, etc. For numeracy: time conversion, numbers. For ICT: e-mail, web-based researches, presentations, etc (Grevells, 2012). When learners summarise what they have learnt during the lesson, I could assess their speaking skills and writing skills because to summarise the lesson they need to take notes, so writing skills embedded as well as speaking skills. With choral reading strategy, I assessed reading and speaking skills. In addition I assessed their ICT and numeracy skills by asking my learners to do a lesson plan for their home studies. In this way, through my assessment strategies literacy, numeracy and ICT skills are being