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Worksheets3 Ps of ASSESSMENT: PRINCIPLES, POLICY AND PRACTICE Session 1 1st P: Principles of Assessment
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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.
teaching
planning
learning
implementation
Assessment for learning should be recognized as
central to classroom practice
not included to classroom practice
secondary to classroom practice
negligible to classroom practice
Assessment is a key
professional skill
social skill
personal skill
emotional skill
Which statements conforms to the principle that assessment fosters motivation.
Assessment that encourages learning by emphasizing progress and achievement rather than failure.
Assessment that encourages learning by emphasizing non-compliance and shortcomings rather than progress and achievement.
Both a and b
None of the above
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?
Assessment promotes understanding of goals and criteria
Assessment helps learners know how to improve.
Assessment develops the capacity for self-assessment
Assessment recognizes all educational achievement
What do you mean by the statement “Assessment is sensitive and constructive.”
Assessment for learning should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has an emotional impact.
Assessment for learning should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has an intellectual impact
Assessment for learning should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has a practical impact.
Assessment for learning should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has an cognitive impact.
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?
Assessment is part of effective planning.
Assessment focuses on how students learn.
Assessment is central to classroom practice.
Assessment promotes understanding of goals and criteria.
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?
Assessment is a key professional skill
Assessment is sensitive and constructive
Assessment fosters motivation
Assessment develop the capacity for self-assessment
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?
Assessment recognizes all educational achievement
Assessment is a key professional skill
Assessment is sensitive and constructive
Assessment promotes understanding of goals and criteria
It is the focus of assessment for learning.
how teachers teach
how teachers learn
how students learn
how students teach
