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Student Assessment
Assessment should be understood as an essential part in the teaching-learning process. It can be used as an instrument which guides us in our classroom behaviour, detecting progress and learning difficulties, and helping to find appropriate ways to deal with the specific needs of each pupil.
In my specific programme, and according to the LOMCE, evaluation will be continuous and global. Students will also make use of a Self-evaluation to assess how much they have learnt at the end of each unit and their level of satisfaction about it. And finally, I will also make use of individual Tests at the end of each unit in order to know if students have been able to reach the established aims or not.
Assessment is a continuous process and is carried out along the learning process. One of the main advantages of the evaluation as continuous process, not only checking the final results, is that it favours a personalised educational system; thus, enabling to detect the difficulties and successes of students at the time in which they occur.
In order to evaluate the learning process we have to take some decisions regarding the situations, strategies and instruments of evaluation. These evaluation procedures should have some characteristics such as:
• To be varied, in order that they allow to evaluate different abilities and different curricular contents.
• To use different codes (verbal, numeric, audio-visual, graphic...)
• To be applicable to more or less structured situations of the learning activity.
• To allow to evaluate the functionality of the learning.
• To evaluate the transference of the learning to different contexts.
• To give specific information.
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