Testing for Intelligence?
Teachers have for a long time teaching the whole children. In my opinion, the wholistic approach to teaching means to teach a child across the curriculum to include: cognitively, socially, mentally, and physically. Children need to learn in all areas. Today teachers assess children in language, literacy, math, science, social and emotional skills, adaptive learning skills, social studies skills, and physical health skills. As a teacher, I know the importance of measuring meaningful outcomes for children and to make sure that they learn what they they need to learn. In learning about the purpose of assessing children and learning why we assess children. Assessment and measuring student achievement is used to help determine where students strengths and weakness are.
In the last decade, there has been a growing recognition of the value of assessment in improving the quality of education, in particular the use of continuous assessment (CA) for improving the teaching and learning process in South Africa to improve student achievement. South Africa is trying to improve test score by the use of continuous assessment.
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In the last decade, there has been a growing recognition of the value of assessment in improving the quality of education, in particular the use of continuous assessment (CA) for improving the teaching and learning process in South Africa to improve student achievement. South Africa is trying to improve test score by the use of continuous assessment.
www.hsrc.ac.za
Debra,
ReplyDeleteStandardized tests do point out areas of strengths and weaknesses to a certain extent, and children notice this. There was a student last year who said, “I know what school is about. Teachers teach us, then test us, then teach us, then test us.” This statement just showed how much educators rely on assessments.
Arica
Debra,
ReplyDeleteAssessing children is important for subjects such as math, reading, science and language arts. Each child needs to be evaluated to find his/her skill level. Yet I think that the curriculum does not leave teachers room to explore other ways to explore the subject and not just base the lesson plan around the assessment.