Characteristics of Good Assessments
They
- Assess the impact of the instruction provided to students;
- Help teachers to ensure that all students are making progress;
- Help teachers and students to focus on areas of lessons or lesson topics not yet mastered or learnt well enough to act as solid prerequisites for further learning.
- Enable students to recognize the areas in which they are having difficulty and to concentrate their efforts in those areas
- Provide opportunities to delve into the thinking behind students’ answers, not just when the answers are wrong but also when they are correct.
- Enable students to recognize the areas in which they are having difficulty and to concentrate their efforts in those areas
- Provide opportunities to delve into the thinking behind students’ answers, not just when the answers are wrong but also when they are correct.
- Provides fuel for teaching and learning by offering descriptive feedback.
- Has the potential, not only to measure and report learning but also, to promote it.
- Provides the kind of specific, personalized and timely information needed to guide both teaching and learning.
- Help teachers to understand importance of feedback.
- Allows teachers to use continuous assessment not only to check student’s prior knowledge, understanding and skill.
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