Policy Guidelines

on Classroom
Assessment for
the K to 12 Basic
Education
Program

DepEd ORDER No. 8 s.

What are its Theoretical
Bases?
Classroom Assessment

 is a joint process that involves both

teachers and learners.
 It is integral part of teaching and learning.
 Must recognize the diversity of learners
inside the classroom.
 Recognition and deliberate consideration
of the learners’ zone of proximal
development (Vygotsky 1978).
Classroom Assessment

 Appropriate assessment is committed to ensure

learner’s success in moving from guided to
independent display of knowledge,
understanding, and skills, and to enable them
to transfer this successfully in future situations.
 Assessment facilitates the development of
learners’ higher-order thinking skills and 21st-
century skills.
Classroom Assessment

 Acknowledges the unity of instruction

and assessment.
 Assessment is part of day-to-day lessons
and extends the day-to-day classroom
activities that are already in place in the K
to 12curriculum.
What roles of assessment
are focused?
Classroom Assessment

Roles of Assessment

Formative Summative
Assessment Assessment
What are assessed?
 Learning
Standards

Content Performance Learning

Standards Standards Competencies
 Learning
Standards

Content Performance Learning

Standards Standards Competencies
How are the students
assessed?
What is the percentage of
the distribution of these
components?
What grading system do
they follow??
How are grades computed at
the end of the school year?
How are the learners
progress reported?
How are the values
reflected?
How is attendance
reported?
TO whom will you report
students’ performance?
Appendices