SUMMARY
Let’s enjoy and cover the importance and the purpose of
Evaluation as an essential part of the learning process in the classroom. Evaluation
is the collection of, analysis and interpretation of information about any
aspect of a programme of education or training as part of a recognized process
of judging its effectiveness, its efficiency and any other outcomes it may
have.
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| Teacher tools for evaluation. |
Evaluation has several purposes:
1.-Placement of student: this involves bringing students
appropriately in the learning sequence and classification or streaming of
students according to ability or subjects.
2. Selecting the students for courses: general, professional,
technical, commercial etc.
3. Certification: certifying that a student has achieved a
particular level of performance.
4.-Stimulating learning: this can be motivation of the
student or teacher, providing feedback, suggesting suitable practice etc
5.- Improving
teaching: by helping to review the effectiveness of teaching arrangements.
Depending upon what is being evaluated, different types of
data will be collected, different criteria will be applied to the data, and
different types of decisions will be made.
Types of Evaluation based on purpose
Placement Evaluation
This is a type of evaluations carried out in order to fix
the students in the appropriate group or class.
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| Is him in the correct level? |
Formative Evaluation
This is a type of evaluation designed to help
both the student and teacher to pinpoint areas where the student has failed to
learn so that this failure may be rectified.
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| Help always your students. |
Diagnostic Evaluation
This type of evaluation is carried out most of the time as a
follow up evaluation to formative evaluation. What you will now do is to design
a type of diagnostic test, which is applied during instruction to find out the
underlying cause of students persistent learning difficulties.
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| Student taking a diagnostic test. |
Summative evaluation:
This is the type of
evaluation carried out at the end of the course of instruction to determine the
extent to which the objectives have been achieved.
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| A teacher evaluating student´s work. |
Types of evaluation based on what is being evaluated
Student Evaluation
Achievement is one of the variables on which student is
assessed; other major variables include aptitude, intelligence, personality,
attitudes and interests.
Curriculum evaluation
It involves the
evaluation of any instructional program or instructional materials, and
includes evaluation of such factors as instructional strategies, textbooks,
audiovisual materials, and physical and organizational arrangements.
School evaluation
Evaluation of a
school involves evaluation of the total educational program of the school and
entails the collection of data on all aspects of its functioning.
Evaluation of personnel
Evaluation of personnel (staff evaluation) includes
evaluation of all persons responsible, either directly or indirectly, for
educational outcomes, i.e., teachers, administrators, counsellors and so forth.
