scholarly journals Theoretical Preconditions for [a] Change in the Student Assessment System: Toward Good Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 73-93
Author(s):  
Asta Volbikienė ◽  
Neringa Vilkaitė-Vaitonė ◽  
Remigijus Bubnys ◽  
Rūta Girdzijauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Success Experience ◽  
Teaching Learning

Student formal assessment is the core axis of the educational process that affects the whole teaching / learning activity, its quality, students’ success experience, their self-respect and self-esteem, and the perception of self-efficacy. By recognising prospects as the main learning objective and defining the outcome as personal and authentic learner progress, the assessment raises the need to pay a due attention to reflection, deep consideration, and feedback to all participants of the educational process. Against this background, doubts are started to be raised about appropriateness of the grade, currently being one of the most popular methods of the formal student assessment, leading to the scientific problem of this article. Over the last few decades, a shift in the assessment has been observed, from the focus exclusively on the end result to a stronger orientation toward the whole educational process, with an emphasis on motivating students to learn and strengthening their involvement in the educational process. These changes are illustrated by the Finnish good practice where, in an environment based on mutual trust and respect, and without questioning the importance and need for testing learners’ knowledge, abilities, and skills in the teaching / learning process, alternative assessment methods: portfolio assessment and learning conversations, are successfully used. To transfer examples of the good practice and adapt them to the national context, it seems reasonable to apply theories and models of change management. Achieving a targeted and effective change in the area of the assessment requires a process-focused approach to the change management.

scholarly journals Eportfolio, Alternative Assessment and Student Self-Assessment: Exploration of the Correlation in Primary Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Angelos Konstantinou Haralabous ◽  
Maria Darra
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
School Year ◽  
Questionnaire Method

The main purpose of this study is to explore and register the trends and perceptions of primary school teachers about the implementation of the eportfolio as an alternative form of student assessment and as a tool for self-assessment by students. The survey was carried out during the second semester of the school year 2016-2017 using the anonymous written questionnaire method, which was answered by 215 primary school teachers of all subjects from the first educational area of Athens, the capital of Greece. The results of the survey show that most respondents believe that it is necessary to completely change the existing student assessment system, to apply alternative forms of assessment and to abolish the quantitative assessment. Regarding the exploration of the eportfolio for students’ evaluation and self-evaluation, the respondents in their overwhelming majority state that they have little or no knowledge of the subject. Also, they state that they do not apply at all or make little use of the eportfolio, although two thirds of the teachers consider that eportfolio’s practical application quite important as an alternative form of assessment and self-assessment of the student.

scholarly journals SELF-EVALUATION AND SELF-ASSESSMENT IN SCIENCE TEACHER TRAINING

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Danuse Nezvalova
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Science Teacher ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Science Teacher Education ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Science Teacher Training

This paper will build on the findings of a pilot study to investigate the extent to which self- assessment and self-evaluation are implemented to assess science teacher students and to put into practice reformed assessment system. The self-assessment and self-evaluation in science teacher education is s an important aspect of quality in science teacher training. Currently these approaches to assessment have called for more authentic student assessment. Teachers who include authentic assessment in their repertoires are driven by a belief that alternative assessment experiences should prepare students for life in the real world. While teacher-made tests give us information about student learning, they do not provide all the information. Alternate forms of assessment can generate that other information. Key words: science teacher training, self-assessment, self-evaluation, quality of science teacher training.

scholarly journals USING EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING IN ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (48) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation

Education is the deliberate enculturation process in general. The concept of deliberation here emphasizes a program that does not leave expectations to coincidences and thus excludes unwanted situations. No matter how accurately and effectively this program is organized, quality control is still carried out at the end of the process with assessment and evaluation processes. The assessment and evaluation processes in education provide feedback in terms of the effectiveness of both the student and the program. This would also lead to an effective reorganization of the process. One of the problems faced during the transition from product or outcome based student assessment approaches to process-based alternative assessment approaches is the difficulty in evaluating the student data collected by more than one alternative assessment instruments. Using all the data about the student in determining the academic achievement of students affects the success of process assessment approach positively. Educational Data Mining is the computer aided search of the relations and rules that enable us to make predictions about the present and the future through the use of the massive amount of data concerning the educational process obtained from various sources. With this process, patterns, similarities and correlations that are in a large data warehouse can be determined and interpreted by using any of pattern recognition methods. Through enabling holistic evaluation of data obtained by process evaluation oriented assessment instruments such as portfolio, rubrics, self and peer assessment, performance assessment etc. it will be possible to obtain the relations concerning not only students’ academic achievement but also students, teachers, schools and courses. Keywords: Assessment, alternative assessment, data mining, educational data mining

scholarly journals TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDING TOWARDS PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT: A CASE STUDY AMONG MALAYSIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 695-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalai Selvan Arumugham
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Mathematics And Science

Alternative assessment plays an important role in gathering information about students’ learning. Introduction of new curriculum in Malaysian primary school education namely Standard Curriculum of Primary School has highlighted portfolio as an assessment tool. Therefore, research has been conducted to examine teachers’ understanding towards this new alternative assessment method. The qualitative data used in this research were gathered from three interview sessions and classroom observations. Five primary school teachers were selected as participants of this research. They are teaching core subject such as English, Mathematics and Science. Thematic analysis was conducted to examine the themes emerged to represent their understandings towards portfolio. Teachers’ understandings towards portfolio were grouped into three major themes: As students’ work collections, as feedback and improvement tools and as teaching, learning and grading tools. They used portfolio in classroom as they understood. Different understandings were revealed as these teachers are also teaching different subjects. This may be the reason why these teachers were having different understandings towards portfolio assessments. This research is significant to teachers, stakeholders, school administration and even society about portfolio assessment.

The Specific of Scholar Dropout in Students’ Opinion

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Valentin Cosmin Blândul ◽  
Adela Bradea
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
School Level ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Academic Year

AbstractIn the present days, education has a crucial role for development of contemporary society, because, in this way, it can perpetuate itself and can transmit, from a generation to the next one, the accumulated experience about humanity and reality. Considerate as a “Key-factor” for progress, the educational process from learning institutions can provide well-prepared labour work for all domains of activity and stimulate the intellectual curiosity, adapted capacity, creativity and innovation as well. Unfortunately, not every pupil (and their family) could understand the importance of formal education for their personal / professional development and for the progress of society. But from personal, social or economical reasons, many pupils prefer to leave the school before to graduate it with diploma. In the present study, we intend to analyze the pupils’ attitude regarding to formal education in connection with teaching / learning activity, inter-personal relationship with colleagues or professors, so on and also, we try to identify some solutions for helping pupils to remain in school until they graduate with diploma. The sample was composed by 500 pupils who study in secondary level from 5 schools from Bihor county, Romania. The instrument was represented by a questionnaire composed from 37 items and the period of research was during the present academic year (2011 / 2012). The results of our study prove that, if pupils would be more involved in taking decision at their school level, or in didactic process and if they get any economic support, are increasing the chance for them to stay in educational system and be able to invest personal effort and material resources in their life development.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF KURIKULUM TINGKAT SATUAN PENDIDIKAN (KTSP) IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH; A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY IN THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA NEGERI 1 NGUNUT, 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Anis Azimah
Keyword(s):  
Learning Activity ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Standard Material ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Unobtrusive Observation ◽  
Descriptive Method

The objective of this study is to describe the teachers’ perceptions towards the implementation of Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Penddikan (KTSP) in SMA Negeri 1 Ngunut and also the implementation of Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP) in the Teaching of English in the classroom for the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Ngunut 2013/2014 academic year, including its material, teaching learning activity and the evaluation. Further more, it is also intended to know more about the strengths and the weaknesses of the implementation of Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP). In this research, the writer uses a qualitative research. To describe the students’ and teachers’ perception towards the implementation of Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP) in the class, the researcher uses descriptive method. The technique of collecting the data in this research is unobtrusive observation, in-depth interviewing, and document analysis. The writer uses guided-interview to support the data. In analyzing the data, the writer uses interactive analysis method by data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. After doing observation and interview, the writer can conclude that the teachers have good perception towards the implementation of KTSP in the school and play their role as teachers in the classroom well. The implementation of Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP) in the teaching of English at the tenth grade of SMA Negeri 1 Ngunut is well conducted. The teaching-learning activity in the classroom runs well because the teachers always try to encourage the students in teaching-learning process. The material given to the students in teaching-learning activity is appropriate to the KTSP’s standard material. Key words: Implementation, Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP), Received: 23 June, 2016; Accepted: 8 September, 2016

Applying the Prototype Model into the Electronic Reporting System for the Elementary School Student Base on Android

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Tukino ◽  
Siti Masruroh ◽  
Daryanto Herdiana
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Prototype Model ◽  
Electronic Reporting ◽  
System Method

Teaching and learning is an activity that is bound by goal directed and carried out specifically to achieve that goal. Because it is very important to seek knowledge for a bright future. Supervision of students by the guardians of the students made the results of their children's achievements not improving. As well as student assessment by the teacher is still not well managed because it is still in the form of a note report. The system method used is the Prototype model. With observation and direct interviews with the student section regarding the assessment system in the school where the author researched. The results of this study are applications that can be operated on an Android Smartphone. This application can provide fast information and update automatically in obtaining information on student learning outcomes.        

scholarly journals Impact of students evaluation of teaching: a text analysis of the teachers qualities by gender

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingsley Okoye ◽  
Arturo Arrona-Palacios ◽  
Claudia Camacho-Zuñiga ◽  
Nisrine Hammout ◽  
Emilia Luttmann Nakamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
Process Innovations ◽  
Educational Domain ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Evaluation Of Teaching ◽  
Teaching Learning

AbstractToday, modern educational models are concerned with the development of the teacher-student experience and the potential opportunities it presents. User-centric analyses are useful both in terms of the socio-technical perspective on data usage within the educational domain and the positive impact that data-driven methods have. Moreover, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education and process innovation has emerged due to the strategic perspectives and the process monitoring that have shown to be missing within the traditional education curricula. This study shows that there is an unprecedented increase in the amount of text-based data in different activities within the educational processes, which can be leveraged to provide useful strategic intelligence and improvement insights. Educators can apply the resultant methods and technologies, process innovations, and contextual-based information for ample support and monitoring of the teaching-learning processes and decision making. To this effect, this paper proposes an Educational Process and Data Mining (EPDM) model that leverages the perspectives or opinions of the students to provide useful information that can be used to enhance the end-to-end processes within the educational domain. Theoretically, this study applies the model to determine how the students evaluate their teachers by considering the gender of the teachers. We analyzed the underlying patterns and determined the emotional valence of the students based on their comments in the Students Evaluation of Teaching (SET). Thus, this work implements the proposed EPDM model using SET comments captured in a setting of higher education.

Didactics of primary education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Voroncova ◽  
Tat'yana Sutyagina ◽  
Oksana Pavlova ◽  
Elena Tihomirova ◽  
Anna Samohvalova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Technology Project ◽  
Project Method ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
State Educational

The requirements of the federal state educational standard of primary general education to the content, technologies and methods of the educational process in primary grades are disclosed. Special attention is paid to the characteristics of the system-activity approach, the technologies of primary education (problem-based learning, developmental learning, activity technology, project method, blended learning, etc.) are highlighted. The methods of teaching all the main academic subjects are presented in detail and concretely. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students of higher educational institutions studying under bachelor's degree programs in the areas of training 44.03.01 "Pedagogical education" and 44.03.05 "Pedagogical education (with two training profiles)".

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