Principles to Guide Assessment

  1. Evalutation should relate directly to specific instructional objectives.
  2. Each evaluation activity should be designed to promote further growth.

    • doing or attemping the acitivity should be useful practice in itself.

    • feedback should be useable by student

  3. APPLICATION & interpretation of statistics should be reasonable
      Given scores of 10% 10% 80% 90%, (average of 47.5%) do you promote student to next grade?


  4. Must not hinder learning by introducing errors
  5. Throughout a unit, a variety of evaluation strategies should be used to provide opportunities for all students to demonstrate achievement.
  6. Wherever possible, students should be involved in establishing criteria for evaluation.
  7. Frequency and scheduling of evaluation should provide continuous assessment and feedback.

    • workload (yours and the students)

    • misconceptions

  8. Self and peer evalution in selected activities should be part of overall plan.
  9. All aspects of the evaluation component in a unit should be communicated so there are no suprises or mysteries for students and parents.
  10. To recognize the dignity and worth of the individual.