Assessment and Evaluation

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Assessment and Evaluation
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Assessment and evaluation

• Evaluation is a judgement.
• How well is this course (part of the course)
  meeting its aims and objectives?
• How could this course be improved?
• How has this course helped me?

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Assessment and evaluation

• Assessment is a measurement.
• How (to what extent) have the learning objectives
  been met?
• At what level is this learner?

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Assessment

• Learning needs special case of formative
  assessment
• Formative feedback to the learner
• Summative end point assessment

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Assessment and evaluation

• Informal evaluation is a part of all discourse.
• Formal evaluation should be
• reliable
• valid
• credible
• useful

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Some methods of evaluation

• Student gain by testing
• Institutional self study by staff
• Prestige panel (e.g. Delphi)
• Transactional observation (process)
• Management analysis (often economic)

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Performance and competence
Knowledge and knowledge structures
Competence incorporating assimilated knowledge
and other skills
Performance
Contextual understanding and other inputs
Attitudes Values
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