Assessing our assessment
Event Start Date: November 11, 2017 | Event End Date: November 11, 2017 | Event Venue: Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,TIFR |
Assessment can play a very important role in the teaching and learning process. Very often, the results of the assessments are taken as only ‘pass-or fail” and not as indicators of development and progress of the student.
As the position paper on Teaching of mathematics, NCF 2005 remarks, “Tests are designed (only) for assessing a student’s knowledge of procedure and memory of formulas and facts, and … concept learning is replaced by procedural memory. Those children who cannot do such replacement successfully experience panic, and suffer failure.”
But innovative assessments can challenge the students and indicate to the teacher the understanding levels of her students. Effective assessments can help the teacher understand the various alternate conceptions her students might have. An effective assessment challenges the students to think beyond the curriculum and create their own ideas and conceptions. But for assessment to help the teacher beyond whether the children know or not, the tools used for assessment need to be improvised.
In this workshop, we will try to look at various ways to make our assessments and the tools we use to assess better.