Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment :: Education, Evaluation

IntroductionOne of key element in belief and learning activity is judgment. thither are several types of judging. However, in the consideration of Aceh, most of instructors still use traditional forms of assessment, specifically summative assessment. There is critique on traditional assessment, The critique has been based on the conjecture that these forms of assessment do not support high quality of magnetic dip associated with deep learning, critical thinking, sustainable knowledge and lifelong learning (Havnes & McDowell 2008). Therefore, symptomatic assessment is angiotensin-converting enzyme form of assessment that kitty be employ by the teachers to support high quality of learning. Diagnostic assessment aims to regain students prior knowledge. In order to plan the effective teaching, it is important for teacher to determine students prior knowledge, because the students have their own conceptions on phenomena in the realism before they study in the classroom (Tytler , n.d). This essay is part of appointment in assessing learning unit (EXE733). It aims to recapitulation and discuss an example of monitory assessment task for diagnostic assessment. Before further discussion active example of exemplary diagnostic assessment, it might be important to review the definition, purposes, types of assessment, as well as characteristics of effective assessment.AssessmentAssessment derived from the Latin assessare which mean to impose a tax or set a rate (Athanasou, 1997). According to Athanasou, Assessment is the process of collecting and combining cultivation from test (e.g., on performance, learning, quality) with view to making a judgement just about a soul or making a comparison against an formal criterion. Further, Satterly defined assessment as an omnibus term which includes all the processes and products which picture the nature and extent of childrens learning, its degree of correspondence with the aims and objectives of teaching and its re lationship with the environments which are designed to facilitate learning (1989 p.3, cited in Carrol, 2005). Moreover, Rowntree (1977) said assessment in education can be thought as occurring whenever one person, in some kind of interaction, direct or indirect with another, is sensible of obtaining and interpreting information about the knowledge and understanding of abilities and attitudes of that other person (p. 4, cited in Carrol, 2005).The purposes of assessment can be divided into three levels, to wit classroom level (students and teachers), school level, and system level. Firstly, at classroom level, assessment aims to provide the students with appropriate learning based on their needs, provide the students feedback that they can use to identify their next steps of learning, to develop good confederation with parents, help the teachers to plan next teaching, and guarantee continuity of education for the students (Te Kete Ipurangi, 2007).