Module IV

Module IV:
Assessing the Curriculum
Lesson 3-Tools to Asses
Curriculum

What are Assessment
Strategies?
•Paper-and Pencil Strategy
•The Performance-Based Strategy
•The Observational Strategy
•Personal Communication Strategy
•Oral Strategy
•The Reflective Strategy
•Combination of Strategies

Reflective Strategy

Self-Assessment
Definition
Self-assessment
• is the process of gathering information and reflecting on one’s own learning;
• is the student’s own assessment of personal progress in knowledge, skills, processes, or attitudes;

Reflective Strategy

• leads a student to a greater awareness and understanding of himself/herself as a learner

Reflective Strategy
Purpose
Self-assessment is used to:
• assist student to take more responsibility and ownership of their learning; • provide insights that enable students to make decisions about their learning and to set personal learning goals;
• use assessment as a means of learning;

Reflective Strategy

• focus on both the process and products of learning;
• help students critique their own work; • help students internalize the characteristics/criteria of quality of student work.

Reflective Strategy
Characteristics
Self-assessment:
• promotes the development of metacognitive ability;
• may involve an introspective observation, a product assessment or a test;
• may include attitude surveys, interest inventories, and personal journals;

Reflective Strategy

• involves questions such as “How do I learn best?”, “What are my areas for growth?”, “Where do I need to improve?”; • is used to determine if a student’s beliefs about his/her performance correspond to the actual performance observed by the teacher.

Reflective Strategy

Teacher’s Role
The teacher:
• guides students by helping them to understand how to reflect on learning; • provides time and opportunities for self-assessment; • designs the questions or selects the self-assessment tool;

Reflective Strategy

• can use student self-assessment to
determine