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Learning Tasks
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Constructing Various Assessment Tools

Name of Student Teacher: ______________________ Date Submitted: _________

Year and Section: _____________________________ Course: ________________

Desired Learning Objectives

Demonstrate Knowledge of the design, selection, organization and use of diagnostic,
formative and summative assessment strategies consistent with curriculum
requirements.
 Demonstrate knowledge of monitoring and evaluation of learners programs and
achievement using learner attainment data
 Demonstrate knowledge of providing timely, accurate and constructive feedback to
improve learner performance.
 Demonstrate familiarity with a range of strategies for communicating learner needs,
progress and achievement
 Demonstrate an understanding of the role of assessment data as feedback in teaching
and learning practices and programs
Essential Questions

 Differentiate diagnostic, formative and summative assessments.

 Why do we need to monitor and evaluate learner progress and achievement/
 What are some examples of constructive feedback to improve learner performance?
 Give examples of strategies for communicating learner needs, progress and
achievement.
 What is the role of assessment data in the teaching and learning practices and
programs?

Understandings
Assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that teachers use to measure,
evaluate document the learners’ performance. These are some example of assessment tools:

Diagnostic Formative Summative

 Conducted at the  Conducted during  Conducted after the
beginning of the school instruction instruction
year.  Monitors student  Sums up what students’
 Allows teacher to learning to provide on- have learned
determine students’ going feedback to  Finds out what concepts
strengths, weaknesses, improve reading and were learned after the
knowledge and skills learning lesson
prior to instruction.  Helps students identify  Used for documenting
 Diagnoses students’ their strengths and outcomes and judging
difficulty weaknesses value
 Used to guide lessons  Used in the formation  Completed After
and curriculum planning and revision process instruction e.g. exams,
 Completed Before  Completed During projects, papers
teaching instruction e.g.
homework, graded
 quizzes, ungraded
assignments

Importance of Monitoring and Evaluating Learner Progress

The monitoring of student progress is a practice that aids teachers to continuously
assess the effectiveness of their teaching and make good informed decision. To determine the
student’s performance level, the teachers must measure their progress regularly (weekly, bi-
weekly, monthly or as needed)
Teachers must monitor the progress of the learners for the following reasons:
 To improve instruction;
 To help teachers make better instructional decisions and change their teaching
styles;
 To ensure success and achievement for every learner;
 To identify and help students at risks; and
 To provide enrichment to gifted learners.

Use of Constructive Feedback in Classrooms

Constructive feedback is a tool used to praise a performance effort or outcome. It is a
favourable judgement and support communication.

Tips on Giving Constructive Feedback

1. Uses positive feedback
2. Focus on the efforts/situations
3. Use the active voice
4. Be specific with one’s feedback
5. Use key points in giving feedback
6. Emphasize objective points
7. Give specific examples and situations
8. Connect on things/situations that can be acted upon.
9. Give suggestions/recommendations on how to improve
10. Refrain from doing assumptions

Some Strategies for Communicating Learner Needs, Progress and Achievement

 Conduct Parent Teachers dialogue regularly
 Give parents a way to keep track of the leaner’s progress through a communication
diary or via on line
 Display learners’ portfolio in school
 Develop open lines of communication especially for learners with special needs and for
students at risks
 Explore the possibility of having a bulletin board of information

Source of Assessment Data as Feedback in the Teaching-Learning Process

 Teachers may collect student data from the following sources to improve classroom
instructions:
 Formative assessment- e.g. quizzes, seatwork, exit slips, worksheets
 Daily Observation
 Summative Assessment – e.g. projects, essays, quarterly exams
  Cumulative Files
 Standardized Test Score
 Students’ Records in Guidance, Health Services and the like
 Home visitations
 Writing anecdotal records
 Conducting formal and informal interviews
 Checking students’ works, projects and portfolio

My Performance Task
Performance Task 1: Get one sample each of the following: diagnostic, formative and
summative tests.

INSIGHTS
Performance Task 2: Interview your Cooperating Teacher or any teacher and ask the following
questions.

A. Why is there a need to monitor and evaluate learners’ progress?

B. Research on the fifty (5) ways to praise a child (reference: [Link])

Performance Task 3:

A. What strategies are used by your Cooperating School to communicate learners’ needs,
progress and achievements?

B. What assessment data are used by your Cooperating Teacher to improve student
performance?
My Assessment Tasks
Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. Why is there a need to monitor student progress?
A. To improve instruction
B. To improve assessment
C. To improve student learning
D. To continuously assess teachers’ effectiveness
2. When is a diagnostic test given?
A. During the lesson
B. At the end of the year
C. At the end of the period
D. At the beginning of the year
3. When is a summative test given?
A. At the end of the period
B. At the beginning of the year
C. At the beginning of the semester
D. At the completion of instruction
4. Which assessment data contain the grades, attendance, discipline reports and other
information of the learners?
A. Portfolio folder
B. Assessment folder
C. Cumulative folder
D. Standardized folder
5. When is a formative test employed?
A. During the lesson
B. End of the lesson
C. End of the semester
D. Beginning of the lesson
My Learning Artifact(s)
Paste the various assessment tools that you have constructed during your teaching
internship. What is the impact of these to students’ learning?

Let’s Write a Journal

Journal Entry #15: Constructing Various Assessment Tools. Your entry should
contain your understanding and reflection on the given concept.
 My Scoring Rubrics

INDICATORS Meets Approaching Meet Does Not Meet

Standards of Standard of Acceptable Acceptable
Excellence Excellence Standard Standard

CRITERIA
4 3 2 1
Performance  Has all the  Has some  Has minimal  No aspects of
Tasks aspects of aspects of work aspects of work meets
work that that exceed work that level of
exceed level level of meet level of expectations
of expectation expectation  Has errors,
expectation.  Demonstrates  With some omissions and
 Shows solid errors and misconceptions
exemplary performance MASTERY is
performance and not
understanding thorough

Assessment With 5 correct With 4 correct With 3 correct With less than 3
Tasks answers answers answers correct answers

Learning The pieces/s of The piece/s of The piece/s of The piece/s of

Artifacts evidence of evidence of learning evidence of evidence of learning
learning is/are is/are aligned with learning is/are is/are NOT aligned
aligned with SOME of the learning aligned with with the learning
learning outcome ONE of the outcomes.
outcomes. learning
outcomes
Creativity and The learning The learning tasks The learning The learning tasks
Resourcefulness tasks are done are done creatively tasks are done are poorly done and
very creatively and resourcefully. quite creatively need improvement
and and
resourcefully resourcefully

Submission of The assigned The assigned The assigned The assigned

Requirements learning tasks learning tasks are learning tasks learning tasks are
are submitted on submitted a day after are submitted 2 submitted 3 days or
or before the the deadline days after the more after the
deadline. deadline deadline.

MY TOTAL SCORE

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