Assessment

Assessment

What I know about assessment is that the assessment way should match the teaching and learning methodology followed.

Last year, we were encouraged to use multiple intelligences and Bloom’s Taxonomy. Students and I exerted a lot of efforts to make succeed. It did. Students started to think critically and to respond to different kinds of learning styles.

The disaster was that the tests were very traditional. Sometimes, they were worse. Marks didn’t reflect students’ improvement. It, however, let them down. They weren’t enthusiastic anymore. The started to feel that all the methodologies they used to have fun with aren’t useful anymore. They felt that other students who weren’t being taught in the same way were privileged because they got extra marks.

Students should be tested on what they went through, even if it means to have two different copies of tests.