{"id":876,"date":"2019-05-26T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=876"},"modified":"2019-08-13T09:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T01:24:51","slug":"assessment-of-learning-assessment-for-learning-assessment-as-learning-which-is-which","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/assessment-of-learning-assessment-for-learning-assessment-as-learning-which-is-which\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of learning? Assessment for learning? Assessment as learning?: Which is which?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are several types of assessments: 1) Assessment of learning, 2) Assessment for learning and 3) Assessment as learning<\/span><\/p>\n

Assessment of learning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This refers to summative<\/strong> assessment.\u00a0 It could be in a form of final examination or any examination that meant to see to what extent students have understood certain concepts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Assessment for learning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This refers to formative<\/strong> assessment.\u00a0 One of the main purposes of formative assessment is to \u00a0see to what extent teachers could improve their teaching and support that they provide to students based on students’ performance.\u00a0 For example, a quiz that is given to students based on certain topics covered.\u00a0 Based on the quiz results, teacher would make a decision for improvement of teaching and learning activities in class.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Assessment as learning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This refers to<\/span>\u00a0reflective<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>self-evaluation<\/strong>.\u00a0 This type of assessment is not meant for grading purposes but it is meant to help students to understand themselves better in terms of what they have learned and how well they have understood the concepts\/topics they have learned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Can a quiz be formative and reflective self-evaluation<\/a> at the same time?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For me, it can be when you let the students decide if they want to quiz to be graded or ungraded.\u00a0 Meaning, they can take any quiz that I give without feeling pressure of being graded and this would be “assessment as learning<\/strong><\/span>” – because they take the quiz as a means to help them reflect on their understanding and learning i.e. reflective self-evaluation<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 But at the same time, the same quiz can be considered as formative assessment<\/span><\/strong> [assessment for learning<\/strong><\/span>] if the students want the marks of the quiz to be graded.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How can we (as teachers) implement all three assessments?\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In my case, what I normally do is, I have a mixture of assessments that I give to my students such as quiz, presentation, report and final exam.\u00a0 Final exam<\/strong> is an example of summative assessment<\/strong><\/span> i.e. assessment of learning<\/em><\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 For quiz, I make it in such a way that there will be graded quizzes<\/strong> (formative assessment<\/span><\/strong> or assessment for learning<\/em><\/span><\/strong>) and there are also ungraded quizzes<\/strong> (assessment as learning<\/span><\/strong><\/em>).\u00a0 For the ungraded quizzes , I normally give after we have finished discussing about a topic, for instance.\u00a0 But for graded quizzes, it comprises of several topics.\u00a0 So, in this case prior to take any graded quiz, students have self-assessed themselves on any given topic.\u00a0 Of course, since it is ungraded, I notice that some students don’t take it seriously and thus, will not make any attempt to take the ungraded quiz.\u00a0 I have seen it in the recent courses that I taught this semester (Semester 2, 2018\/2019).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What should I do then?\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I give soft reminder several times but in the end of the day, I have to respect the students’ decision.\u00a0 If they think it is the best for them to skip any ungraded quizzes, it is their right.\u00a0 I have no right to force them in their learning.\u00a0 After all, as adult learners, they should be responsible towards their learning.\u00a0 They are not secondary school students.\u00a0 The major difference between secondary school students and university students is for secondary school students, they need extra guidance when it comes to helping them in decision making.\u00a0 University students?\u00a0 What a heck!\u00a0 They are adults, and they should be responsible and accountable with whatever decision that they make.\u00a0 Welcome to adulthood!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are several types of assessments: 1) Assessment of learning, 2) Assessment for learning and 3) Assessment as learning Assessment of learning This refers to summative assessment.\u00a0 It could be in a form of final examination or any examination that meant to see to what extent students have understood certain concepts.\u00a0\u00a0 Assessment for learning This … Continue reading Assessment of learning? Assessment for learning? Assessment as learning?: Which is which?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling","category-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}