Assessment is an essential tool without which educators could not adequately, effectively or efficiently meet learners' needs and wants.
Performing assessments will help educators determine learner placement, develop materials, curriculum, and teaching approaches. It also provides important information about what learners bring to the course, what they already have accomplished and what they want or need to know next.
When to assess?
Assessment is most useful when it occurs before, during and after courses. Having done so gives educators a baseline from which to start, an opportunity to check progress midway and change course if needed, and evaluate end results.
Who benefits from assessment?
First and foremost - the learner reaps the benefits. When educators have a good idea of what the learner has learned, wants or needs to learn and how he or she prefers to learn it, the most effective learning setting is prepared. Others also benefit from assessment including educational authorities, program funders and employers.
What information is included in an assessment?
6 main types of information may be included in assessments. Personal information, language-related information, learning-related information, teaching-related information, goal-oriented information, and miscellaneous information.
When educators include comprehensive assessments before, during and after their courses, they are better equipped to provide learners opportunities to achieve. Educators can use the information from the assessments to drive the development of materials, to guide the direction of the curriculum, and to inform approaches used. Rather than using the same material over and over again with different learners who have different needs, wants, and objectives from the learning, educators who use assessment results effectively can ensure a "flexible, responsive curriculum."
As our the author of our text so poetically put it,
"If we know what's of interest to our students, we can package the desired with the required, and can provide a more effective and dynamic learning environment for everyone."
When educators include comprehensive assessments before, during and after their courses, they are better equipped to provide learners opportunities to achieve. Educators can use the information from the assessments to drive the development of materials, to guide the direction of the curriculum, and to inform approaches used. Rather than using the same material over and over again with different learners who have different needs, wants, and objectives from the learning, educators who use assessment results effectively can ensure a "flexible, responsive curriculum."
As our the author of our text so poetically put it,
"If we know what's of interest to our students, we can package the desired with the required, and can provide a more effective and dynamic learning environment for everyone."
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