APPROPRIATENESS OF ASSESSMENT METHODS

- Assessment methods are strategies, techniques, tools and instrument for collecting
information to determine the extent to which the student demonstrate the desired learning
outcomes.
- Learning targets are very essential to assessment, if learning targets are clearly stated,
assessment can be precise and accurate.

LEARNING TARGET APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT METHOD

Cognitive Target
Skills, competencies and abilities
target
Output, product and project target
- Written response instrument
- Oral questioning
- Performance tests
- Observation and self-report
- Product rating scale

WRITTEN RESPONSE INSTRUMENT

- Written assessments are activities in which the student selects or composes a response to a
prompt. In most cases, the prompt consists of printed materials. However, it may also be an
object, an event or an experience.
- The student does the writing at a specified time and within a fixed amount of time, thus can be
standardized.

Written response instrument includes;

1. OBJECTIVE TEST
- are appropriate for assessing the various levels of hierarchy of educational objectives (Bloom’s
Taxonomy). Examples are;
1.1. Multiple Choice
- This gives several choices, and the student is asked to select the most correct one.
1.2 True or False
- Student choose whether each of the several statements are true or false
1.3 Matching type
- Matching items are presented in group as a series of stems or prompts that must be matched
by the student to one of a group of possible answer options

2. ESSAYS
- Essays are lengthy written response that can be scored in terms of content and/or
conventions.
- Essay when properly planned, can test the student grasp of the higher level cognitive skills
particularly in the areas of application analysis, synthesis and judgement.
- However when essay question is not sufficiently PRECISE and when the parameters are not
properly DEFINED, there is a tendency for the students to write irrelevant and unnecessary
things just to fill in blank spaces, that leads to difficulty and frustration of both teacher and
students. For example;
(POOR) Write an essay about the first EDSA revolution
(BETTER) Write an essay about the first EDSA revolution giving focus on the main characters of
the revolution nd their respective roles.

3. CHECKLISTS
- This question lists items and directs the learner to check those that apply to the situation

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF WRITTEN RESPONSE METHODS

SELECTED RESPONSE CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE
(e.g. multiple choice, (e.g. short answer, essay)
true/false, matching)
- Easier to score - allows student to demonstrate complex,
in-depth understanding
ADVANTAGES - can be answered quickly - less likelihood of guessing correct answer
- covers a broader range of - Motivates students to learn in a way that
curriculum in a shorter time stresses the organization of information,
principles, and application
- Constraints students to single - More time consuming to score
DISADVANTAGES appropriate answer
- Encourages students to learn - More time-consuming to answer
by recognition
- Subject to guessing correct
answer