This year I am trying to find the best method to assess my students as a teacher. It seemed to me that assessment is always heavily discussed around teaching and that every teacher has his own view on the matter.
I was first questioning where do we need to assess and what is it good for?
Most experts who write about assessment start by saying that assessment is integral part of teaching and education but rarely explain why.
That maybe is because the answer is pretty simple. Without assessing the learning how do we know if we learned?
This answer is satisfying enough for me therefore accepting the need to assess I started looking at what good could come out of assessing.
Experts and research show that students need to be involved in the assessing as this leads them to understand what they have learned and what they still need to learn.
“Classroom assessment that involves students in the process and focuses on increasing learning can motivate rather then merely measure students.” Stephen Chappuis and Richard J. Stiggins