ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
- Author: V.M.Muthukumar
- Language: ingliz tilida
- Writing: ingliz yozuvida
- Publisher: Copyright reserved
- Year: 2016
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The term Assessment has been widely used by educators to evaluate, measure, and
document the academic readiness, learning progress, and skill acquisition of students throughout
their learning in life. Different terminologies are there for assessment and evaluation such as
Measurement, Tests, Examination, Appraisal and Evaluation. There are certain Learning theories
which are having conceptual frameworks describing how information is absorbed, processed and
retained during learning. Behaviourism is a philosophy of learning that only focuses on
objectively observable behaviors and discounts mental activities. Piaget proposed that a child's
cognitive structure increases in sophistication with development, moving from a few innate
reflexes such as crying and sucking to highly complex mental activities. Constructivist learning
theory stated that the process of adjusting our mental models to accommodate new experiences.
Assessments are classified based on the different purposes, scopes, attribute measured, nature of
information gathered, nature of interpretation and context.