Roles of

assessment in
teaching

Jie Yik
Ivy
Ann Joe
Jojo
Lavin
What is teaching?

– Impart knowledge to someone or instruct someone to do something

– The act, profession or practice of a teacher
– Setting out the intention to learn for the learners by considering their feelings,
experiences and needs (Hirst, 1975)
Roles of assessment in teaching

– Generate appropriate student learning activity – lesson planning

– Capturing students attention – focus on certain topics
– Provide opportunities to remedy mistakes in the lesson – immediate feedbacks /
comments
– Performance indicator for teachers and students

Gibbs (2013)
Brown & Knight (1994)
From UCD teaching and learning “Role of assessment”
Taghi (2009) “The importance of
classroom assessment and evaluation
in educational system”
– Role of assessment for the teachers by Biggs (1999)
1. Provide feedbacks on the effectiveness of instruction
2. Show pupils learning progress / learning successful or no?
3. Clarify the expectations of the teachers from the students
Gensee ( cited in Carter and
Nunan, 2001)
– Guide classroom instruction and enhance student learning
– Suitability of instructional goals and objectives associated with individual
lessons or unit plans
– Effectiveness of instructional methods, materials and activities to attain
instructional objectives
– Adequacy of professional resources required to deliver instruction
– Serve as important professional development purposes for the teachers
(related to roles of assessment in research)
Roles of assessment in teaching

– Informative function: determine whether the pupils reach the learning

objectives and suitability of teaching strategies
– Regulative function: Teachers regulates the pupils further learning activity /
procedure to correct errors, misconceptions or to avoid possible errors in the
future.
– Motivational function: motivates student to learn, to be discipline and help
teachers to increase sense of responsibility of the students
Dagmar Wiesnerova (2012) Benefits of self assessment in English classes at
elementary schools
Conclusion

– The roles of assessment in teaching is:

1. To help teachers improve their instructional appoarch, teaching.. Etc.
2. To help teachers to motivate or classroom management, but this might cause
unhealthy scenario to the learners
3. To help teachers identify pupils prior knowledge, learning progress etc. thus
plan suitable learning activities
4. To develop teachers professional skills

To maximize pupils learning during the lesson

References

– UCD teaching and learning “Role of assessment”

– Dagmar Wiesnerova (2012) “Benefits of self assessment in English classes at
elementary schools”
– Taghi (2009) “The importance of classroom assessment and evaluation in
educational system”