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3 Ps of ASSESSMENT: PRINCIPLES, POLICY AND PRACTICE Session 1 1st P: Principles of Assessment

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

It should include strategies to ensure that learners understand the goals they are pursuing and the criteria that will be applied in assessing their work. 

a)

teaching

b)

planning

c)

learning

d)

implementation

2.

Assessment for learning should be recognized as

a)

central to classroom practice

b)

not included to classroom practice

c)

secondary to classroom practice

d)

negligible to classroom practice

3.

Assessment is a key

a)

professional skill

b)

social skill

c)

personal skill

d)

emotional skill

4.

Which statements conforms to the principle that assessment fosters motivation.

a)

Assessment that encourages learning by emphasizing progress and achievement rather than failure.

b)

Assessment that encourages learning by emphasizing non-compliance and shortcomings rather than progress and achievement.

c)

Both a and b

d)

None of the above

5.

Teachers should: pinpoint the learners’ strengths and advise on how to develop them; be clear and constructive about any weaknesses and how they might be addressed; provide opportunities for learners to improve upon their work. Which principle of assessment is this?

a)

Assessment promotes understanding of goals and criteria

b)

Assessment helps learners know how to improve.

c)

Assessment develops the capacity for self-assessment

d)

Assessment recognizes all educational achievement

6.

What do you mean by the statement “Assessment is sensitive and constructive.”

a)

Assessment for learning should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has an emotional impact.

b)

Assessment for learning should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has an intellectual impact

c)

Assessment for learning should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has a practical impact.

d)

Assessment for learning should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has an cognitive impact.

7.

 For effective learning to take place, learners need to understand what it is they are trying to achieve – and want to achieve it. Which principle of assessment is this?

a)

Assessment is part of effective planning.

b)

Assessment focuses on how students learn.

c)

Assessment is central to classroom practice.

d)

Assessment promotes understanding of goals and criteria.

8.

  Independent learners have the ability to seek out and gain new skills, new knowledge and new understandings. They are able to engage in self-reflection and to identify the next steps in their learning. Which principle of assessment is this?

a)

Assessment is a key professional skill

b)

Assessment is sensitive and constructive

c)

  Assessment fosters motivation

d)

Assessment develop the capacity for self-assessment

9.

Assessment for learning should be used to enhance all learners’ opportunities to learn in all areas of educational activity. It should enable all learners to achieve their best and to have their efforts recognized. Which principle of assessment is this?

a)

  Assessment recognizes all educational achievement

b)

Assessment is a key professional skill

c)

Assessment is sensitive and constructive

d)

  Assessment promotes understanding of goals and criteria

 

10.

It is the focus of assessment for learning.

a)

how teachers teach

b)

how teachers learn

c)

how students learn

d)

how students teach