Definitions

• Assessment: Using various methods to

obtain information about student learning
that can be used to guide a variety of
decisions and actions
• Evaluation: The process of interpretation
and use of information to make decisions;
judgment regarding the quality, value, or
worth of a response, product or
performance
 Performance Assessment
• “ Performance is assessment based
on observation and judgment”
» (Stiggins, 1994)

• “The aim of assessment is primarily

to educate and improve student
performance, not merely to audit it”
» (Wiggins, 1998)
 Authentic assessment
• “Authentic assessment is assessment that occurs
continually in the context of a meaningful
learning environment and reflects actual and
worthwhile learning experiences that can be
documented through observation, anecdotal
records, journals, logs, work samples,
conferences, portfolios, writing discussions,
experiments, presentations, exhibits, ,projects
and other methods.”
» Winograd & Perkins, Authentic Assessment in the
Classroom: Principles and Practices.
 Characteristics of
Performance tasks
• Must be:
– Authentic
– Credible
– User-friendly
 Balance
• Recall Classify
• Identify Compare
• List Analyze
• Match Evaluate

Do you know it? Can you use it?

 Assignment
• Your group’s MISSION is to build and fly a
paper airplane
• Prior to doing so you must develop a set of
performance criteria upon which your finished
plane will be evaluated/assessed by the rest of
the participants
• Each team must also develop a personal self –
reflection sheet on this task.
• Each team must compete the “Group work
Evaluation form once the task is completed.
 A Competency is:
• “An appropriate performance in a given
situation;
• Is Complex;
• Is cumulative;
• Is comprehensive and integrated;
• Is evaluated on the basis of meaningful
situations. ”
» Evaluation of Learning, MEQ, 2002
 Evaluation of Learning
• As a result of changes in the learning
process
• Used as a tool to to help students in the
learning process
• The need to highlight the importance of
integrating evaluation into learning and
not as a separate process
• The importance of evaluating students in
“Authentic” (real - life) situations
 Applying Knowledge
• “Evaluation of student learning must
be carried out in a way that is
respectful of diversity and difference
and must promote action to ensure
educational success of all students”¹
» ¹Draft Policy on the Evaluation of Student
Learning, MEQ, November 6, 2000
Teacher’s Responsibilities

– should propose the standards and procedures

for the evaluation of student learning.”

Principal’s Responsibilities
Eight Principles and guidelines of
Evaluation
– The principle of evaluation as an integral
part of learning
– The principle of student participation in
evaluating the development of a
competency
– The principle of respect for difference
and diversity
– The principle of conformity with the
programs
Eight Principles and guidelines of
Evaluation

– The principle of collaboration

– The principle of compliance with the
rules of ethics
– The principle of recognition of prior
scholastic and experiential learning
– The principle of certification of studies
safeguarding the social value of official
documents
 Evaluation of Student
Learning

“During the learning process,

evaluation must take into account
the fact that not all students
learn at the same pace and in the
way.”²

²Draft Policy on the Evaluation of Student

Learning”, MEQ, November 6, 2000
 Some Key Features
• Assessment and instruction are inseparable
• Is ongoing and diagnostic
• Is used to modify content, process and
products
• Includes: facts, concepts, skills, attitudes,
principles
• Ask yourself, “what do you want each student
to come away with as a result of an activity?”
 Howard Gardner
• “The biggest mistake of past centuries has
been to treat all children as if they were
variants of the same individual, and thus to
feel justified in teaching them the same
subjects in the same ways.”
» Howard Gardner Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
 William Arthur Ward

The Mediocre teacher tells;

The Good teacher explains;
The Superior teacher demonstrates;
The Exceptional teacher inspires.