Today's topic is tough. I got headache for a very long time about it.
Assessment. It's such a big topic!
In 401/402 study, we learned about two forms of assessments, formative assessment and summative assessment. At that moment, this issue seemed so clear. Now, it turns back to chaos in my mind.
As I knew, there are several "realities" related to the mark:
1) "No zero mark" rule. This is totally make sense to me. The students' mark reflects their learning progress. According to the pedagogical philosophy, school is a place that people do something for students, and students are the centre of the school. thus, "zero mark" means the student didn't learn anything this term in the school. It turns out that kind of question: what does the teacher do in this term?
2) There are certain limitation line for the average mark of the students to enroll the certain university. And also, there is certain mark required to keep your qualification studying in university. It does mean the "grade" and "mark" are objectively influence students' future.
So, As high school teacher, I have a lot of questions.
1) I want to know "does the grade matter?"
2) "Does the assessment have any standard?" If Yes, what is about? If No, then why? and what are the SAT, Provincial exam and term exam for?
3) I agree that "mark shouldn't be the only standard to evaluate students" and assessment should evaluate students from many angles, such as skills, multi-intelligence, social abilities, etc. However, I just want to understand clearly, is there any standard system to assess students' efforts and progress in equality? This equality is a protection for students' equal right to enroll certain levels of universities and it is so important to students.
Also, before we want to create something new, I think we need to have a relative mature idea to create the New first, then destroy the old one. I really struggle with the novel ideas when they are only some pieces of segments. We need to think ahead of time, but the reality is, if there is no better solution to replace the old one, we'd better to keep it. Although criticism becomes more and more fashion now.
Assessment. It's such a big topic!
In 401/402 study, we learned about two forms of assessments, formative assessment and summative assessment. At that moment, this issue seemed so clear. Now, it turns back to chaos in my mind.
As I knew, there are several "realities" related to the mark:
1) "No zero mark" rule. This is totally make sense to me. The students' mark reflects their learning progress. According to the pedagogical philosophy, school is a place that people do something for students, and students are the centre of the school. thus, "zero mark" means the student didn't learn anything this term in the school. It turns out that kind of question: what does the teacher do in this term?
2) There are certain limitation line for the average mark of the students to enroll the certain university. And also, there is certain mark required to keep your qualification studying in university. It does mean the "grade" and "mark" are objectively influence students' future.
So, As high school teacher, I have a lot of questions.
1) I want to know "does the grade matter?"
2) "Does the assessment have any standard?" If Yes, what is about? If No, then why? and what are the SAT, Provincial exam and term exam for?
3) I agree that "mark shouldn't be the only standard to evaluate students" and assessment should evaluate students from many angles, such as skills, multi-intelligence, social abilities, etc. However, I just want to understand clearly, is there any standard system to assess students' efforts and progress in equality? This equality is a protection for students' equal right to enroll certain levels of universities and it is so important to students.
Also, before we want to create something new, I think we need to have a relative mature idea to create the New first, then destroy the old one. I really struggle with the novel ideas when they are only some pieces of segments. We need to think ahead of time, but the reality is, if there is no better solution to replace the old one, we'd better to keep it. Although criticism becomes more and more fashion now.
No comments:
Post a Comment