Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment and evaluation

Evaluation is a judgementEvaluation 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?

Assessment and evaluation

Assessment is a measurementAssessment is a measurement.

How (to what extent) have the learning

objectives been met?

At what level is this learner?

Assessment

• Learning needs: special case of formative

assessment

• Formative: feedback to the learner

• Summative: end point assessment

Assessment and evaluation

Informal evaluation is a part of all discourse.

Formal evaluation should be:

• reliable

• valid

• credible

• useful

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)

Performance and competence

Knowledge and knowledge structures

Competence incorporating assimilated

knowledge and other skills

Performance

Contextual understanding

and other inputs

Attitudes

Values