Martha S. Espinosa
BEED-SPED 3x3
Write your personal reflections
or thoughts and feelings about the importance of the use of appropriate
assessment methods in the classroom, including what students and teachers can
gain from appropriate assessment tools.
From the learning
activity we had experienced in the Indahag Elementary School, I learned that
appropriate assessment method is very essential in teaching-learning process in
the classroom. As what I recall from my previous lesson that: assessment is a sine
qua non of teaching without t it teaching cycle is not complete. I think it can
never be completed because teaching-learning process will all be useless
without assessing or checking whether your students have learned the lesson or
not, whether your teaching methods and strategies are effective or ineffective,
whether or not you give corrective measures like remedial instruction to your
students, and whether you proceed to teach the next level of competency or
teach a lesson again. The answers to these questions depend on the result of
the appropriate and valid assessment method. That is how assessment plays a
vital role in teaching-learning process. Assessment is simply obtaining
evidence of learning. This means to find out how well a student has attained
the performance indicated in the lesson objectives. Thus, it is necessary for a
valid assessment method to be aligned with the lesson objectives.
Appropriate
assessment method is beneficial to the students because it measures student
achievement through scores they obtain from tests and performance they
exhibited from an activity. When students are aware of their achievement that
is reflected on the result of assessment, they will become more motivated to
learn and tend to achieve more than they have achieved before. Assessment is
also used by the teacher to predict student’s success in the future by
measuring the student’s current level of performance.
Appropriate
assessment is beneficial to teachers because it helps them to evaluate the
instruction they presented and their own teaching pedagogies whether or not
they presented the lesson effectively. It also helps teachers to make
instructional decisions for example giving remedial classes.
