The author realized that they had previously viewed assessment solely as a means to get good grades, but not as an important tool to improve teaching and learning. They learned that assessment is valuable for measuring student mastery after a course, but also for providing feedback during a course so students can manage their own learning and teachers can enhance their instruction. The author now understands that assessment, along with other factors like learning environment and teaching tools/techniques, must be aligned to achieve good learning outcomes. Assessment is crucial for improving learning goals, curriculum, instruction, teaching techniques, and learning styles, as it allows educators to identify flaws and strengthen the learning system.
Getting Started with Teacher Clarity: Ready-to-Use Research Based Strategies to Develop Learning Intentions, Foster Student Autonomy, and Engage Students
The author realized that they had previously viewed assessment solely as a means to get good grades, but not as an important tool to improve teaching and learning. They learned that assessment is valuable for measuring student mastery after a course, but also for providing feedback during a course so students can manage their own learning and teachers can enhance their instruction. The author now understands that assessment, along with other factors like learning environment and teaching tools/techniques, must be aligned to achieve good learning outcomes. Assessment is crucial for improving learning goals, curriculum, instruction, teaching techniques, and learning styles, as it allows educators to identify flaws and strengthen the learning system.
The author realized that they had previously viewed assessment solely as a means to get good grades, but not as an important tool to improve teaching and learning. They learned that assessment is valuable for measuring student mastery after a course, but also for providing feedback during a course so students can manage their own learning and teachers can enhance their instruction. The author now understands that assessment, along with other factors like learning environment and teaching tools/techniques, must be aligned to achieve good learning outcomes. Assessment is crucial for improving learning goals, curriculum, instruction, teaching techniques, and learning styles, as it allows educators to identify flaws and strengthen the learning system.
The author realized that they had previously viewed assessment solely as a means to get good grades, but not as an important tool to improve teaching and learning. They learned that assessment is valuable for measuring student mastery after a course, but also for providing feedback during a course so students can manage their own learning and teachers can enhance their instruction. The author now understands that assessment, along with other factors like learning environment and teaching tools/techniques, must be aligned to achieve good learning outcomes. Assessment is crucial for improving learning goals, curriculum, instruction, teaching techniques, and learning styles, as it allows educators to identify flaws and strengthen the learning system.
I just realized that all throughout my student days, I only looked at “assessment” as getting the best grade in a course. I never thought of it as an important tool to improve curriculum or teaching methodology. I never considered it as something that can help strengthen learning styles or any part of the learning process. And then I read on and learned that assessment is important not only in measuring the students’ mastery after the course but more importantly the process during the course, such that students can be directly involved in and manage their own learning, and teachers can improve on their instructional tools and methodology. Now, I quite understand that all factors in the learning-teaching process must be aligned to successfully achieve the targeted learning outcome (what we want our students to learn). The learning-teaching environment, the learning-teaching tools and the learning- teaching techniques must all be in sync in order to achieve the best learning outcome. Now I know, assessment is an important as all the other factors. For how can we improve learning goals without assessment? How can we improve curriculum and instruction without assessment? How can we improve teaching techniques without assessment? How can we improve learning styles without assessment? How can we delete the flaws and improve the system without assessment? Now, I am enlightened why we do assessment and why we do it in particular ways. Assessment helps us correct flaws and go a step higher. Assessment bridges teaching and learning. Assessment leads us towards learning best and teaching best!
Getting Started with Teacher Clarity: Ready-to-Use Research Based Strategies to Develop Learning Intentions, Foster Student Autonomy, and Engage Students