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Measurement also allows a teacher to compare
one student’s performance on a particular task with a standard or with a
performance of other students. Thus,
measurement is an essential part of the learning process.
By definition, the term measurement is
restricted to quantitative assessment in which ordinal numbers are applied to
data. Ordinal members indicate rank
order only, as opposed to numbers that indicate categories or number that assume
equal interval units, as found on rules. The
item or person that is rated highest is given the rank of one, the second
highest, the two and so on usually, qualitative assessment is closely tied to
evaluation, which is a more comprehensive term than measurement.
Evaluation is measurement plus a value judgment ; the teacher makes
decisions about the degree of “goodness” or “importance” of certain data
is also quantitative in nature – the teacher may even quantify feelings about
a student in an attempt to make that data compatible with other measurement
information. Grading systems are
simply translations of this often complex evaluation into meaningful symbols.
At all levels of education, the determination
and the meaning of marks have become serious issue.
Today there is pressure from students, teachers, school boards and state
legislators to create real and meaningful learning situation that are evaluated
in real and meaningful ways. What
are the purposes of systematic classroom evaluation ? The
purposes are 1)
to appraise academic achievement of individual students 2)
to diagnosis learning difficulties in a students in a classroom 3)
to appraise curriculum or instructions The
appraisal of students is to give them some type of formal test. Test may have
some other purposes – may be to motivate students, giving the students
relevant feedback, deciding on teaching approach with different students,
comparing a student’s result with the group or predicting the future
performances of the students. This
means, that the evaluation procedure ought to be purposive and systematic.
We need to be sure of what we want to evaluate ?
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