This document provides guidelines for classroom assessment in the K-12 basic education program. It discusses the theoretical basis of assessment, defining it as a joint process between teachers and learners to holistically measure student abilities and promote self-reflection. Formative assessment is used to guide instruction and provide feedback, while summative assessment measures if learning standards are met. The document outlines how to conduct both formative and summative assessments, including tracking student progress through documentation. Teachers are directed to use appropriate assessment methods aligned with curriculum standards.
This document provides guidelines for classroom assessment in the K-12 basic education program. It discusses the theoretical basis of assessment, defining it as a joint process between teachers and learners to holistically measure student abilities and promote self-reflection. Formative assessment is used to guide instruction and provide feedback, while summative assessment measures if learning standards are met. The document outlines how to conduct both formative and summative assessments, including tracking student progress through documentation. Teachers are directed to use appropriate assessment methods aligned with curriculum standards.
This document provides guidelines for classroom assessment in the K-12 basic education program. It discusses the theoretical basis of assessment, defining it as a joint process between teachers and learners to holistically measure student abilities and promote self-reflection. Formative assessment is used to guide instruction and provide feedback, while summative assessment measures if learning standards are met. The document outlines how to conduct both formative and summative assessments, including tracking student progress through documentation. Teachers are directed to use appropriate assessment methods aligned with curriculum standards.
This document provides guidelines for classroom assessment in the K-12 basic education program. It discusses the theoretical basis of assessment, defining it as a joint process between teachers and learners to holistically measure student abilities and promote self-reflection. Formative assessment is used to guide instruction and provide feedback, while summative assessment measures if learning standards are met. The document outlines how to conduct both formative and summative assessments, including tracking student progress through documentation. Teachers are directed to use appropriate assessment methods aligned with curriculum standards.
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POLICY GUIDELINES ON
CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT FOR THE
K-12 BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM THEORETICAL BASIS Classroom assessment is a joint process that involves both teachers and learners. It is an integral part of teaching and learning. Teachers provide appropriate assessment when they aim to holistically measure learners’ current and developing abilities while enabling them to take responsibility in the process. This view recognizes the diversity of learners inside the classroom, the need for multiple way of measuring their varying abilities and learning potentials, and the role of learners as co-participant in the assessment process. At the heart of this assessment framework is the recognition and deliberate consideration of the learners’ zone of proximal development. Appropriate assessment is committed to ensure learners’ success in moving from guided to independent display of knowledge, understanding, and skills, and to enable them to transfer this successfully to future situations. From this point of view, assessment facilitates the development of learners’ higher-order thinking skills. This view of assessment, therefore, acknowledges the unity of instruction and assessment. Assessment is a part of day-to-day lesson and extend the day-to-day classroom activities that are already in place in the K to 12 curriculum. WHAT IS CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT? Assessment is a process that is used to keep track of learners’ progress in relation to learning standards and in the development of 21st century skills; to promote self-reflection and personal accountability among students about their own learning; and to provide bases for the profiling of student performance on the learning competencies and standards of the curriculum. Various kinds of assessments shall be used appropriately for different learners who come from Classroom assessment is an ongoing process of identifying, gathering, organizing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information about what learners know and can do. Teachers should employ classroom assessment methods that are consistent with curriculum standards. It is important for teachers to always inform learners about the objectives of the lesson so that the latter will aim to meet or even exceed the The provides immediate feedback to the students about their learning progress. Classroom assessment also measures the achievement of competencies by the learners. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Formative assessment may be seen as assessment for learning so teachers can make adjustments in their instructions. It is also assessment as learning wherein students reflect on their own progress. According to UNESCO-TLSF, it refers to the ongoing forms of assessments that are closely linked to the learning process. It is characteristically informal and is intended to help students identify strengths and weaknesses in order to learn from the assessment experience. Formative assessment may be given at any time during the teaching and learning process. It is also a way to check the effectiveness of the instruction. Formative assessment involves teachers using evidence about what learners know and can do to inform and improve their teaching. Teachers observe and guide learners in their task through interaction and dialogue, thus gaining deeper insights into the learners’ progress, strengths, weaknesses, and needs. The results of formative assessments will help teachers make good instructional decisions so that their lessons are better suited to the learners’ abilities. It is important for teachers to record formative assessment by documenting and tracking learners’ progress using systematic ways that can easily provide insight into a student’s learning. Such monitoring will allow teachers to understand their students and thus teach them better. Formative assessment results, however, are not included in the computation of summative assessments. Formative assessment must also provide students with immediate feedback on how well they are learning throughout the teaching-leaning process. Recommendations on how they can improve themselves should also be given by the teachers. Formative assessment enables students to take responsibility for their own learning, and identify areas where they do well and where they need help. as a result, students will appreciate and make their own decisions about their progress. SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT Summative assessment may be seen as assessment of learning which occurs at the end of a particular unit. This form of assessment usually occurs toward the end of a period of learning in order to describe the standard reached by the learner. It measures whether the learners have met the content and the performance standards. Teachers must use methods to measure student learning that have been deliberately designed to assess how well students have learned and are able to apply their learning in different contexts. The results of summative assessments are recorded and used to report on students’ achievement. The result of summative assessment are reported to the learners and their parents/guardians. In addition, these are reported to principals/ school heads, teachers who will receive the child in the next grade level, and guidance teachers who should help students cope with challenges What is assessed in the classroom? Content Standards Performance Standards Learning Competencie s Concept Development TAXONOMY OF COGNITIVE DOMAIN How are the learners assessed in the classroom? Individual Formative Assessment Collaborative Formative Assessment Formative Assessment in Different Parts of the Lesson Before the Lesson During the Lesson Proper After the Lesson