Assessment can be accomplished in many ways, it can be a test, group activity, oral & written test, lab test, etc. but the idea is to have an idea of the present competence of the students and consequently look for area of improvement. This then implies that there should be more than one assessment to check the effectiveness of the strategy employed for the first assessment hence cyclic process or multiple assessment process is employed for continuous improvement.
But we have to consider that the teacher is usually over burdened with the overall activity that the management is expecting the teacher to accomplish in that term and this sometimes overwhelms the teacher to an extent that one assessment is all that is utilized to grade the students, which only tends to make the student focus not on the skills that ought to have developed but more on the “exam oriented preparation”.
Hence we should equip the teachers with a profound knowledge and training of utilizing the assessments for improving the teaching & learning process, hence improving the skills of the students and developing the weakness of each students.
“Everybody is a genius, but if we judge a fish by its ability to climb tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid”
Ajima 