Page 14 - Learner Centered Teaching

Assessment and Agency

According to Weimer (2002), evaluation is often detached from the learning process.

Instructors often regard evaluation as outside of ‘teaching’. Assessment, then,

simply measures the degree to which learning has taken place. Weiner suggests that

this approach to evaluation is limited. Instead of viewing evaluation as only a tool

for generating grades, educator should also consider how it might promote learning.

Additionally, she contends that

evaluation should not solely be the

domain of the instructor. Instead,

educators should teach students to

assess their own work, as well as

the work of others. In short,

evaluation should be used to

engage students’ learning, as well

as to help them learn to assess

their own (and their classmates’)

learning.