During schooling days the only thing about assessment that would come to mind is the scores, judgmental, verdicts, etc… but after this course I came to know that there is more to assessment than my previous understanding. The assessment is about improving the teaching & learning to reach the objective.
The assessment strategies that jump out is the idea of traditional & nontraditional assessment, alignment, feedback, reflective assessment. If aligned properly and the feedbacks are rightly acted upon then there would be a huge difference in uplifting the skills of the students. Another misconception that was corrected is that these assessment are not for just the students, infact it is also for the teachers, for whom once they get the feedbacks have to act upon to change the strategies of their teaching, to something that would better suit the needs of the students.
Another important thing is that the assessment should be a cyclic process i.e. assessment – feedback – change – assessment – feedback – and so on. The teacher should always clearly deliver the syllabus and the objectives to the students so they can work in the intended direction and can check their alignment with the objectives to improve, thus the self-assessment.
Thus I would conclude that this course was a strategy provider for me & I would deeply thank our esteemed Dr. Lou for her support and strategies.
“Assessment is today’s means of modifying tomorrow’s instructions”
Ajima 