THE ASSESSMENT UNDER THE K TO 12

Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum

Program

A. Philosophy

Assessment shall be used primarily as quality assurance tool to track student progress in the attainment of standards, promote self reflection and personal accountability for one’s learning, and provide a basis for the profiling of student performance

B. Nature and Purpose of Assessment

Holistic Standard-based

Emphasis is on the formative or de

velopmental purpose of quality assurance student

learning

Seeks to ensure that teachers will teach to the standards and students

will aim to meet or even exceed the standards

Standard-Based

•Assess for Attainment of Content Standard

Level 1 – KnowledgeLevel 2 – Process/SkillsLevel 3 – Understanding

• Assess for Attainment of Performance Standard

Level 4 – Products/Performances

HOLISTIC

C. Level of Assessment

LEVEL OF ASSESSMENT WHAT WILL I ASSESS

Knowledge (A) 15% Assess student’s knowledge of facts and definitions and information covered by competencies

Process / Skills (A) (25%) Assess student’s ability to convert

information to another form and demonstrate skills and procedures covered by competencies

Understanding (M) 30% Assess student’s ability to make meaning, generate the Big Idea, establish connections, draw inferences and conclusions covered by the standards

Product/ Performance (T) 30% Assess student’s ability to on his or her own transfer his or her understanding to real life situations original work according to the standards

Level of Assessment

Goal Types Action Verbs

Knowledge

Process/ Skills

Acquisition Of Knowledge & Skill

- Apprehend - Notice-Calculate - Paraphrase-Define - Plug in-Discern - Recall- Identify - State- Memorize - Select

UnderstandingMaking Meaning

coming to understanding

Analyze - Interpret-Compare - Justification-Contrast - Prove- Critique -Summarize- Defend - Synthesize- Explain - Test- Evaluate -Transfer- Generalize - Verify

Action Verbs for AMT

Level of Assessment

Goal Types Action Verbs

Product/ Performance

Transfer

Learning to new situation

- Adapt( based on feedback -- Adjust based on the result-Apply- Create--Design- Innovate- Perform Effectively- Self-assess- Solve --Trouble Shoot

Halimbawa

Halimbawa ( Process/ Skill)

KNOWLEDGE ASSESSEMENT

Araling Asyano

Quarter 1 Aralin 1

* Thist KNOWLEDGE because it requires students to “recall “Information

Process ASSESSEMENT Kasaysayan ng

Daigdig Ika-apat na Markahan Aralin 3

Gawain 8 is a under PROCESS because it requires students to perform cognitive operations on facts and information in the form of “application” and/ or

“establishing relationships”

ASSESSEMENT AT THE LEVEL OF Understanding

This under UNDERSTANDING because it requires students to see the main or enduring ideas s

IKA-APAT NA MARKAHAN

ARALIN BLG. 2: NASYONALISMO SA

SILANGAN AT TIMOG SILANGANG ASYA

GAWAIN 7

Performance ASSESSEMENT

POKUS NGAYON is under PERFORMANCE because it requires students to perform an

developmental /enabling / culminating activity..

Kasaysayan ng Daigdig Unang

Markahan Aralin 3

PRE-ASSESSMENT(Diagnostic: Prior Learning)

Holistic Assessment

Answers the questions:

1. What pre-requisite knowledge, skills and/or understanding do I need information on that, as teacher, I can build on to teach new knowledge and develop new skills and understandings that will enable my students to produce the expected product or performance?

2. What tools will be appropriate to collect information?

3. How will I use the results of the pre-assessment?

Knowledge Skills/Process Understanding Product/ Performance

Pre-Assessment

Should pre-assessment be made basis for grading?

Think about this:

NO! Pre-assessment is used to collect data as to where the teacher should start delivering the lesson. It is not a means to measure student’s “true achievement” that makes pre-assessment an “Assessment for Learning”

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT(Developmental: Assessment of

Learning as Process)

Holistic Assessment

Answers the Questions:

1. How will I and my students to track their learning progress in relation to what they need to:

a. know? b. be able to do? And c. understand?

so that on their own, they will be able to produce the expected product or performance.

2. What teacher and student tools will be appropriate to collect such information?

3. How will I and my students utilize the results of the assessment?

Formative Assessment

Should formative assessment be made basis for grading the students ?

Think about this:

NO! Formative assessments is used to collect data to improve teaching or improve strategies. That makes

formative assessment an “Assessment for Learning”. It also helps students track their own progress that makes

it “Assessment as Learning”

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT(Evaluative: Assessment of

Learning as Outcome)

Holistic Assessment

Answers the questions:

1. How do I evaluate what has been learned in terms of:• knowledge (what students know)• process/skills (what students can do with what they know; how they make sense of the knowledge and information)• understanding (what meanings children have constructed or made); and• products and performances (how children use or transfer their understanding or learning to real-life situations)-

Summative Assessment

2. What criteria I will use?

3. What tools will be appropriate to evaluate products and performances?

4. How will I utilize the results of the evaluation?

Should summative assessment be made basis for grading the students ?

Think about this:

YES! Summative assessments is used to EVALUATE student’s true achievement . That makes summative

assessment an “Assessment of Learning”.