Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Is Assessment Central to Learning?

1. The quotations below-mentioned explain why assessment is central to the learning processes. These authors also believe that assessment is a crucial aspect of teaching. In other words, assessment is the most significant factor that influences students learning. Choose one, two or all the authors' opinions and suggest ways assessment can help your students.

1. If we wish to discover the truth about an educational system, we must look into assessment procedures …The spirit and style of student assessment defines the defacto curriculum. (Rowntree, 1987, p1)

2. Assessment methods and requirements probably have a greater influence on how and what students learn than any other single factor …This influence may well be of greater importance than the impact of teaching materials (Boud 1988).

3. What influenced students most was not the teaching but the assessment (Gibbs and Simpson, 2004, p4)

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