Learning Episode 12:

Reflection: Formative Assessment is tasting the soup while cooking. Reflect on

this and write your reflections. Should you record results of formative assessment?
Why or why not?
Formative Assessment is an assessment which means that the educator or the
teacher facilitates learning through giving recommendations, comments, and
suggestions on how the learner should improve. It is also generally called as
assessment for learning thereby the students engage learning competencies and
provide useful and timely feedback in the pursuit of improvement and to attain
knowledge, skills and understanding that are vital to their performance in the next
part of assessment which is the summative assessment. Formative assessment is
like a preparation of the students to test their capacity to deal and engage the final
assessment which is the summative assessment—thereby the students are expected
to attain and acquire knowledge, skills and understanding of the learning
competencies, objectives and importantly align to the curriculum. From the
statement above which is “Formative Assessment is tasting the soup while
cooking. It is like an idiomatic expression to where the chef or the cook is the
teacher and the soup represents the students whereby the cook adds some spices,
llamas and seasoning to make the soup tasty enough to be ready to serve. The
spices, llamas and seasoning symbolize as the formative assessment, teaching
strategies and instructions to enable students to learn more and preparing them to
the summative assessment.
Formative assessment is not actually like summative assessment—it is not
necessarily recorded wherein there the teacher constantly facilitates the learners
through giving feedback, recommendations and suggestions. This is very useful in
the final role play performance wherein the students will have a rehearsal first and
the teacher is giving feedback to them. Furthermore, not just in the performance
based that the formative assessment is useful, it is useful enough to measure the
students to their understanding like for instance giving an exit tickets. Exit tickets
are the reflections of the learner on how they understand the lesson and explain
their own reflections about it.
Reflections: The Primary purpose of assessment is not to measure but to further
learning. Reflect on your personal experiences of assessment in school. Were you
given opportunities for self-assessment? If yes, what was its impact on your
learning?
I truly believed that this statement refers to the Formative Assessment. The
Purpose of formative assessment is not to measure students learning capacity but to
nurture them with aid of providing timely feedback in the pursuit of improvement
and attaining knowledge, skills and understanding. This will enable students to
understand more driven by their own curiosity and motivation to engage more in
the learning process. In the pursuit of competent students, they must be able to
participate during discussion of the teacher to assess their confusions and questions
about the lesson itself—thereby creating a gap between the turmoil they may
experience during the lesson. Thus, enabling them during class discussion will
have a massive impact into their development wherein they truly engage the lesson
with timely feedback, comments and suggestion to foster learning improvement
and assess them to the right way to do especially during the summative assessment.
These are the reasons why formative assessment is a great tool for learning
improvements:
 Caters the needs and concerns of the students to the task given by the teacher
 Enables learners to develop their higher order thinking skills.
 Fosters learning by means of providing and updating comments and
suggestions to what is better to do the task given by the teacher.
 Encourages participation and engagement of the subject matter.
 Adheres cooperative learning.
I have said these reasons because I actually experienced effective formative
assessment in my high school life and it was done by an effective teacher to enable
students learn effectively and efficiently. Though formative assessments will not be
recorded, however it will serve as our attendance. Nevertheless, an educators aims
to have a factual bases through summative assessments to measure the academic
performance of the learners as form of evidences that are vital to maintain the
vision and mission of the school, as well as the core values of the school.
Learning Episode 13
Reflection:
My assessments when I was a high student of Alfredo Parilla National High
School. It was quite meaningful to engage especially when the teacher is
conducting formative assessments in which my classmates are quite participative
and have fun to learn. The learning objectives are being presented at the beginning
of the lesson and the teacher calls someone in class to read the learning objectives
so that we will know what we need to know and acquire the knowledge and skills
as well as the understanding. Most of the teachers during my high school life
prominently integrated this in their Detailed Lesson Plan especially when the
principal is evaluating them through their demonstration. It truly affects my
development and engagement in class due to the fact that we will be able to foresee
what the lesson is as we dig down to the rabbit hole through engaging ourselves
into the lesson and develop ways to better understand the lesson.
Impressive Learning Outcomes are correlated with the teacher’s instructions,
teaching strategies and most importantly the assessments. To have better learning
outcomes of the learners the teacher must encompass the value of assessment in the
classroom. These are the importance of well-planned, structured and effective
assessment.
 Nurtures the learner to be improved in their learning.
 Encourages learners’ engagement to the subject matter.
 Assess learners to address their concerns, needs and questions.
 Reinforces organization of appropriate teaching strategies to apply to the
very diverse learners.
 Integrates cooperative learning style as well as self-directed learning.
 Increases the capacity of acquiring necessary knowledge and skills; and
 Preparing learners to get the highest possible learning outcomes into the best
of their capacity.
As a future educator, I solemnly uphold the principles that fosters effective
teaching strategies and well-planned assessments to increase the motivation of my
students to listen and engage themselves into the lesson of Araling Panlipunan.
Reflection: Are authentic assessment tools and tasks new? Reflect on
your experiences of tests for all the years as a student?
Authentic assessment is an approach to assessment that focuses on
evaluating students’ ability to apply learning in real-world contexts. It
integrates the use of outcome based education wherein students are
tasked to do their projects that reflects the real world situations and
scenarios—allowing them to demonstrate their own ideas, knowledge
and understanding that integrates meaningful experiences. Furthermore,
authentic assessment can be also identified as the traditional assessment
wherein the educator is using multiple-choice tests or essays and other
paper-pencil tests.
Authentic assessment tools are not the latest tool used by the teacher, it
was used ever since the learner centered curriculum is established by the
Department of Education and probably that was a one decade ever since
it was implemented. It might be new to the some of the teachers,
especially those teachers that have preference on the old-curriculum
wherein it was teacher-centered.