Saturday, February 28, 2015

FS:5 Learning Assessment Strategies
Episode 4: Work Me On


Name: Chrstian Rey C. Balingao

Course: BSE- 3A
Resource Teacher: Sir Linion Simeon
Cooperating School: Isabela National High School


My Target
     At the end of this activity, you will be skillful in designing process – oriented performance assessment.

MY TASK
     After your observation experience you now have a deeply and principled understanding of the concepts of authentic assessment used in the classroom. You can now go through the process of designing performance assessment by the following these steps:
1.       Visit a class and identify performance-based activities.
2.       Choose one performance-based activity and study its process.
3.       Design a performance assessment plan for the activity you have chosen.
4.       Collect samples of performance-based assessment tools.
5.       Reflect on your experience.


MY TOOLS
     In observing a class, take note of important observations of the performance-based activity in the classroom. Make a checklist of the important things you want to consider in your assessment planning. Use the activity form provided for you. You may use format of process-oriented assessment that you have taken in your assessment 2 class. The rubrics are part and parcel of this assessment plan.


OBSERVATION NOTES


Describe in bullets the performance-based activity you observe.

-the performance-based activity was all about puzzling tables under statistics.

-the activity requires 6 students per group to look (solve) to build the table.
-during the process, the learners are busy solving, computing and some of them are putting them are writing their answers.
-lastly, they consulted the teacher if what they have done was correct.



MY CHECKLIST

Criteria
3
2
1
Students cooperation.



Students obey the procedures of the task.



Students restore the puzzle.



Students presentation on class.




3-Very Satisfactory
2-Fair
1-Poor


Based on your observation, make a checklist of the important things you wish to consider in your performance-based assessment plan.


NOTES ON MY PROCESS-ORIENTED ASSESSMENT PLAN


What are the best features of my process-oriented performance assessment design?

The best feature of my process-oriented performance assessment design is the presentation part. Each group here are see how well could they explain and defend what they did.


What specific conditions are necessary for a successful use of my process-oriented performance assessment design?

Process-oriented performance assessment design must well prepare. Objectives as well as procedures and criteria must be communicated to students. It must also be properly estimated of what they have learned during the whole process.


What basic points should the user of this design consider?

The design should consider students to demonstrate the 3 domains of learning (knowledge, skills and attitudes). The task must be relevant and teachers must know how to light up the students to get motivated for this design to be effective.


ANALYSIS
 

Why do teachers need to give attention to the students’ process-oriented tasks? Why do they need to assess them?

   Giving attention on student’s process tasks benefits both the teacher and the student. For the teachers, they need to monitor students process oriented tasks to give them a better understanding of how to improve student’s whole capacity of learning. They need to assess students because their knowledge must not stay only on the middle level but it should go deep beyond that. As it says that “learning entails not only what students know but what they can do with what they know”. They need to provide attention to them to see student’s efforts, strategies and abilities. For students, they need to be monitor to provide coaching to them that will bring the best in them.

In what conditions can the process-oriented performance assessment be used appropriately?

  
The process-oriented assessment could be used appropriately if:
-the assessment context is well settled.
-the students know that they are being assessed.
-students are ready.
-the tools that will be used are available.
-teacher is in condition too.


Reflection

Make reflections on your feelings and thoughts about the observations made in this FS.
  
   Learning is by doing (John Dewey). Students learns best by doing the learning themselves. They need to experience and do things to learn. In the classroom, it is stated that one way to improve quality of teaching is to design tasks. (Tasks are duties that must be done. Therefore it requires action). As I observed, there are factors that discourages learning like students are performing tasks out of interest or just to have something to present. However, learning requires teacher’s effort to motivate students. Teacher’s need to consider all the factors that discourages student’s to learn. Designing task is one a factor that will encourage learning. Teachers should add color to his/her instruction. The expectation to the students must also be clear and communicated without intimidating them. In this manner, teachers could make a way of changing students with this approach of enhancing students cognitive skills in way students could not recognize.

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