CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The major purpose of assessment is to help identify learning gaps in students and what corrective activities should be appropriate to reduce them so that students can continue or improve their learning.

Detailed explanation-2: -The primary purpose of assessment is to improve student learning. To underscore this basic but often-forgotten purpose, a coalition of national education and civil rights groups made such a statement its “Principle 1” in its recently released Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems.

Detailed explanation-3: -The purpose of feedback in the assessment and learning process is to improve a student’s performance-not put a damper on it. It is essential that the process of providing feedback is a positive, or at least a neutral, learning experience for the student.

Detailed explanation-4: -Assessment should integrate grading, learning, and motivation for your students. Well-designed assessment methods provide valuable information about student learning. They tell us what students learned, how well they learned it, and where they struggled.

Detailed explanation-5: -The primary purpose of assessment is to improve students’ learning and teachers’ teaching as both respond to the information it provides. Assessment for learning is an ongoing process that arises out of the interaction between teaching and learning.