Review a Range of Different Assessment Methods Available and Explain the Ones You Would Use for Your Subject Area. Evaluate the Use of Assessment Methods in Different Contexts, Including Reference to Initial Assessment
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Review a range of different assessment methods available and explain the ones you would use for your subject area. Evaluate the use of assessment methods in different contexts, including reference to initial assessment
Quotation.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Spencer Churchill
Introduction.
This assignment has been prepared in order to review a range of different assessment methods available and explain the ones you would use for your subject area. Evaluate the use of assessment methods in different contexts, including reference to initial assessment.
Report
There are many different and varied methods that a teacher can use in order to successful complete an assessment for a given student. I will start in a logical manner with the initial assessment.
The Initial assessment
This assessment is arguably the most important one which I as a teacher am likely to action. Simply put if I as a teacher get this wrong then it will skew the whole process, and potentially render the entire exercise worthless.
The factors which I need to consider are:
The Current Level of Prior Knowledge (PK) or Prior Qualification (PQ).
What is the student’s motivation for attending this course?
Age, as this impacts on how people learn.
What potential they have to achieve.
What is the individual’s personal investment in the subject?
Is it? Financial
Emotional
Physical
Are there any learning barriers, or learning difficulties?
General health / physical limitations.
Socio – economic background Religion
Language
ICT access
Finance
What are the student’s expectations?
Once I have addressed all of these factors I should now be in a reasonable position to teach the class, or individual.
Assessment Methods.
After I have delivered the lesson / or course I will need to carry out a process of assessment to ascertain the level of learning in...
Quotation.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Spencer Churchill
Introduction.
This assignment has been prepared in order to review a range of different assessment methods available and explain the ones you would use for your subject area. Evaluate the use of assessment methods in different contexts, including reference to initial assessment.
Report
There are many different and varied methods that a teacher can use in order to successful complete an assessment for a given student. I will start in a logical manner with the initial assessment.
The Initial assessment
This assessment is arguably the most important one which I as a teacher am likely to action. Simply put if I as a teacher get this wrong then it will skew the whole process, and potentially render the entire exercise worthless.
The factors which I need to consider are:
The Current Level of Prior Knowledge (PK) or Prior Qualification (PQ).
What is the student’s motivation for attending this course?
Age, as this impacts on how people learn.
What potential they have to achieve.
What is the individual’s personal investment in the subject?
Is it? Financial
Emotional
Physical
Are there any learning barriers, or learning difficulties?
General health / physical limitations.
Socio – economic background Religion
Language
ICT access
Finance
What are the student’s expectations?
Once I have addressed all of these factors I should now be in a reasonable position to teach the class, or individual.
Assessment Methods.
After I have delivered the lesson / or course I will need to carry out a process of assessment to ascertain the level of learning in...