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    This document provides information about assessment, testing, evaluation, and different types of assessment in education. It discusses measurement as assigning numerals to traits like achievement and performance. Testing is defined as using paper and pencil instruments to measure specific traits. Evaluation involves gathering qualitative and quantitative information to make a judgment about effectiveness. Assessment for learning seeks evidence to help learners and teachers identify where learners are and how to improve. Assessment as learning helps students reflect and take responsibility for learning. Assessment of learning makes results public and contributes to decisions affecting students' futures. School based assessment can be effective if carried out properly to provide guidance and ensure accurate, reliable teacher marks through moderation.

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    This document provides information about assessment, testing, evaluation, and different types of assessment in education. It discusses measurement as assigning numerals to traits like achievement and performance. Testing is defined as using paper and pencil instruments to measure specific traits. Evaluation involves gathering qualitative and quantitative information to make a judgment about effectiveness. Assessment for learning seeks evidence to help learners and teachers identify where learners are and how to improve. Assessment as learning helps students reflect and take responsibility for learning. Assessment of learning makes results public and contributes to decisions affecting students' futures. School based assessment can be effective if carried out properly to provide guidance and ensure accurate, reliable teacher marks through moderation.

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    This document provides information about assessment, testing, evaluation, and different types of assessment in education. It discusses measurement as assigning numerals to traits like achievement and performance. Testing is defined as using paper and pencil instruments to measure specific traits. Evaluation involves gathering qualitative and quantitative information to make a judgment about effectiveness. Assessment for learning seeks evidence to help learners and teachers identify where learners are and how to improve. Assessment as learning helps students reflect and take responsibility for learning. Assessment of learning makes results public and contributes to decisions affecting students' futures. School based assessment can be effective if carried out properly to provide guidance and ensure accurate, reliable teacher marks through moderation.

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    UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA

    COLLEGE OF LANGUAGES EDUCATION, AJUMAKO

    FACULTY OF GHANAIAN LANGUAGES EDUCATION.

    INDEX NUMBER : 202138701

    DEPARTMENT : GA-DANGME .

    UNIT : DANGME

    LECTURER : MR SIMON NTUMI:

    COURSE CODE : EDC 361


    Measuremet : It is the process of assignment of numerals to such traits as achievement, aptitude and
    performance. It is the process of assigning numbers to specific attributes or characteristics or traits
    possessed by a person, events or a set of objects according to specific rules. it is limited to the
    quantitative discriptions of students. It answers the question how much.

    Testing : In the educational or classroom setting, test is the series of work which include paper and
    pencil instruments, which questions help the test given to obtain an estimate of the specific trait being
    measured.It is a task or series of tasks, which are used to measure specific traits or attributes in people.
    It include paper and pencil instruments, which questions help the test giver to obtain an estimate of the
    specific trait being measured. Testing answers questions, how well does the individual perform? Two
    interpretation can be given to score from test which are norm-referenced and criterion - referenced
    interpretation.

    Evaluation : It involves gathering information, which can be qualitative or quantitative on a person,


    program or process and trying to make a value judgment about the effectiveness or worth of what is
    being assessed. Is the systematic investigation of student's worth. The main concern of evaluation is to
    inform judgment on the worth of teaching and learning.

    Question (2)

    Assessment for learning: Is the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and
    their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to
    get there. (According to Black and Willam, 1998).For example this assessment occurs at the end of
    learning unit and can also be accompanied by a number or letter grade. It is one of the powerful ways of
    improving learning and raising standards. It focus on the gap between where a learner is in his or her
    learning and where he or she needs to be thus the desired goal. This can be achieved through processes
    such as sharing criteria with learners, effective questioning and feedback. It result in assessment that
    encourage, build confidence, bring hope, and offer success. It is sharing learning goals with learners and
    it aims to help pupils to know a ND to recognize the standards for which they are aiming.

    While assessment as learning is a process by which students are able to learn about themselves as
    learners and become aware of how they learn. Students reflect on their work on a regular basis, usually
    through self and peer assessment and decide offen with the help of the teacher. Assessment as learning
    helps students to take more responsibility for their own learning and monitoring future directions. For
    examples, these assessment create an environment where it is safe for students to take chances and
    where support is readily available and also, provide regular and challenging opportunities to practice, so
    that students can become confident, competent self assessors. They create an environment where it is
    safe for students to take chances and where support is readily available.

    Assessment of learning is the assessment becomes public and result in statements or symbols about
    how well students are learning. It often contributes to pivotal decisions that will affect students futures.
    For example these assessments provide strategies for resources in the event of disagreement about the
    decisions should be considered. The teacher role is rage of alternative mechanisms for assessing the
    same outcomes should be provided. Public and defensible reference points for making judgements
    should be available and transparent approaches to interpretation is made.

    QUESTION (3)

    (i) Assessment is based on profile dimensions of each subject. With these assessment, a specific
    objective may be stated with an action verb as follows. The pupil will be able to describe something after
    the instruction has been completed means that the pupil has acquired knowledge and similarly, being
    able to develop, plan, solve problems, construct means that the pupil can apply the knowledge acquired
    in some new context.This are knowledge, attitudes, and values and practical skills.

    (ii) School Based Assessment (SBA). School based assessment is a very effective system for teaching and
    learning if carried out properly. The new school based assessment system is designed to provide schools
    with an internal assessment system that will help schools to achieve the following purposes : To provide
    guidance in making and grading of test items or guestions and reliable of teachers mark. These
    assessments also provide teachers with advice on how to conduct remedial instruction on difficulty
    areas of the syllabus to improve pupil performance. Introduce a system of moderation that will ensure
    accuracy and reliability of teacher's marks.

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