HOW do we assess? WHAT do we assess?
Assessment How do we assess? Enhances learning! Formal Informal During learning process Formative With grades No grades Formal Informal Summative At the end of learning process
WHAT do we assess?
Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive levels
Bloom's Taxonomy was created in 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating concepts, processes, procedures, and principles, rather than just remembering facts (rote learning).
Bloom’s (revised) taxonomy of cognitive levels
HOW do we assess? WHAT do we assess? NECTA
HOW to write a better test Avoid …… Too many questions Questions are unclear Questions do not reflect the material discussed in class