What is effective assessment? How is effective assessment related to teaching and learning?
Effective assessment is, in basic terms, something that gives feedback to both the student and the teacher.
For the student they can be gaining important feedback through both summative and formative assessment. For this assessment to be effective it needs to inform the student, whether it is positive or negative feedback. The same can be said for the teacher, the feedback they get from assessment is what will help them decide if they need to regroup, move on or change their teaching method.
For teachers constantly assessing their students can help lead to a successful classroom as students will be taught the content that needs to be worked on and students will not be rushed forward into new content. If they were to be rushed forward there could be a massive snowball effect that can leave the student farther and farther behind as the school year moves on. Effective assessment can stop this scenario from occurring in the classroom.
Basically effective assessment is the use of summative and formative assessment strategies in the classroom to benefit the students learning as they move forward. Effective assessment is nothing special it is just the proper use of assessment, misuse of assessment is still assessment but it is misguided and not nearly as valuable.
Describe how evaluation fits into your philosophy of teaching Business Education?
How does effecting assessment and evaluation fit into my philosophy? Well I simply want to have successful students. This might sound extremely idealistic but I want to have students leave my class knowing they learned something and that they actually learned it. I don’t want some fluff in my class that the students remember for an exam and then forget it 30 seconds after the final exam or project. To clarify, when I say successful I don’t even mean I want every student to have 100% in my class (although it would be cool). I want students to know the concepts that are taught. Perhaps it is the wrong attitude but I am not worried that they know all the finite details; I want them to know the big picture. I want my students to be able to take something they learned in my class and know what it is in the grand scheme of things. This is why assessment is important, if I don’t know if the students know what it is I want them to know then I am not only failing myself but I am failing the students as well.
