EVALUATION / ASSESSMENT

HELLO EVERYONE!

How are you doing? I wish you are all staying safe until we recover from this situation.
Today I am going to talk about evaluation and assessment, the difference between this two the strategies of making a good judgement and  the value that each of them has for our pupils or students in the future.
I would like to say as a student that there are many times that I haven't being evaluated as I deserved and it really hurt and was as a stone in my life. It has happened to me sometimes and I just felt like I didn't want to see that subject and teacher anymore in my entire life. That is the thing that me now as a teacher  am going to do it  in the way it should be , without offending anyone and without making the students feel bad in front of the class. I think a good teacher is that person who evaluate her students and motivate them , not that one that embarrassed her students with her cruel behaviour.

So assessment and evaluation are not the same things, which should not be used interchangeably because they have different purpose. Assessment is the process of gathering data about student performance using various tools like teacher observations , activities, or quizzes to capture what students know and understand  while evaluation is the process of actually making a judgement about the meaning of the data gathered .

Let's look at strategies in order to make good judgments about our students success and instructional decisions . We need to have solid assessment and evaluation practices and that begins with establishing clear learning goals . This allows us to prepare lessons in advance with align with and support those goals and to fair and valid assessments. Good assessment and evaluation also include identifying the student level of mastery even before instruction begins . This allow us to reliably capture what students have done well and what needs to be improved based on the level of mastery we are seeking. But how do we do this? There are many tools used to help assess  student progress towards the learning goals like :
- General observation of student behaviour at work
-Observation checklists  during a particular activity or any completed student work
-Involving the students in creating the goals and monitoring their own progress helps improve learner autonomy.

The benefits of evaluation :

•  better understand your target audiences' needs and how to meet these needs :
•  design objectives that are more achievable and measurable:
•  monitor progress toward objectives more effectively and efficiently: 
•  learn more from evaluation:
•  increase your program's productivity and effectivenes

The benefits of assessment : 

Well-designed assessment can encourage active learning peer  and self-assessment, for instance, can foster a number of skills such as : 

•  reflection

•  critical thinking 

•  self-awareness

•   giving students insight into the assessment process.