Activity 5: How we assess evidence - assessment tools

I have come to see assessment tools in a whole new light. I now know that assessment tools is more than outcome and allocating scores to outcome (which I use to focus on).  I now know that you must have outcomes, measurable criteria, specific skills to be measured, the level of performance required, a place for score and comments etc. I have realized also that knowing the requirements for an assessment tool makes it easier to develop one that would be helpful to my students. It would also help me to know when I have developed a good assessment tool..

Activity 4: How we assessed - Assessment methods

I was amazed  to see the range of evidence we as educators can gather and people we can involve in assessment. Though I have had students done some peer assessment before, I now realized it was not properly structured, hence the reason it was always tiresome and time consuming. I now realized if done properly peer assessment would not only be less consuming but very beneficial to students. I have also come to see the benefits of group and self assessment.

Activity 3: What we assess - catering for assessment

I have tried as much as possible to include items in Bloom Taxonomy when I am doing assessment. I have come to realize though that I do not pay enough attention to the learning styles of students and cater enough for multiple intelligences. I know now that I need to be able to link the way students learn to how they should be assessed. I have been reminded that not all students learn the same way and that if I bear the aforementioned factors in mind when assessing students they are more likely to do better when assessed.

Activity 2: What we assess

This activity forced me to think about the things that I normally assesses. I realized that the things that I normally assessed are so routine, like discussions, measuring, research etc. I see many other things that I have not been assessing, that I can now include in assessing, like role playing, acting and performing. These can add more excitement and variety to my assessment methods. I was also able to get some great ideas for assessment also from my colleagues comments via the blogs.