In Blackbox
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Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards through Classroom Assessment
Submitted by,
Wasima Nahrin
15th Batch
Course no & title: EER-582: Assessment and Evaluation Technique in Education
Department of Educational Evaluation and Research
Course Teacher
Mr. Farhan Azim
Lecturer
Institute of Education and Research,
University of Dhaka
The term ‘Black box’ originally refers to a flight recorder on an aircraft, it records the many different operating functions of a plane, e.g. time, altitude, airspeed and direction the plane is heading. The term used here in this article shares a similar meaning referring to the classroom as a black box. The scenario is more or less the same in most of the countries, inputs from outside such as; pupils, teachers, other resources, management rules and requirements, parental anxieties and so on are just fed into the box, but what goes missing is the fact that nobody cares what’s going on inside it. A class can put a teacher in an unusual situation any day as unpredictable as it is, no outside factors will help if the teacher himself is not comfortable dealing with it. And to cope up with that, the best solution for the teacher would be to develop himself to be able to identify every nook of the classroom, every movement of a student. That will make the teacher an efficient one, one who knows what the students are learning, one who is aware of how their students learn so that they can adapt their work to their needs, and one who identifies students with difficulties and works better towards solving it.
Formative assessment is one factor that proves to be very important for teachers to receive feedback on students’ performance. Now, the prime question is what actually formative assessment is and is it being properly applied in general classrooms as a performance raising component? In the article Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom
Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards through Classroom Assessment
Submitted by,
Wasima Nahrin
15th Batch
Course no & title: EER-582: Assessment and Evaluation Technique in Education
Department of Educational Evaluation and Research
Course Teacher
Mr. Farhan Azim
Lecturer
Institute of Education and Research,
University of Dhaka
The term ‘Black box’ originally refers to a flight recorder on an aircraft, it records the many different operating functions of a plane, e.g. time, altitude, airspeed and direction the plane is heading. The term used here in this article shares a similar meaning referring to the classroom as a black box. The scenario is more or less the same in most of the countries, inputs from outside such as; pupils, teachers, other resources, management rules and requirements, parental anxieties and so on are just fed into the box, but what goes missing is the fact that nobody cares what’s going on inside it. A class can put a teacher in an unusual situation any day as unpredictable as it is, no outside factors will help if the teacher himself is not comfortable dealing with it. And to cope up with that, the best solution for the teacher would be to develop himself to be able to identify every nook of the classroom, every movement of a student. That will make the teacher an efficient one, one who knows what the students are learning, one who is aware of how their students learn so that they can adapt their work to their needs, and one who identifies students with difficulties and works better towards solving it.
Formative assessment is one factor that proves to be very important for teachers to receive feedback on students’ performance. Now, the prime question is what actually formative assessment is and is it being properly applied in general classrooms as a performance raising component? In the article Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom