SEMESTER 2: EDU 08-ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING

Course Learning Outcomes On the successful completion of the course, the learner will be able to:

1. Describe the meaning, role and purpose of assessment in teaching learning process

2. Summarize the various types and principles of assessment

3. Critically anise the assessment process in various approaches of classroom teaching learning.

4. Design and create appropriate techniques and tools of good quality for classroom assessment

5. Classify the major issues in classroom assessment

6. Discuss the major reforms in assessment

7. Explain the assessment strategies for inclusive practices

8. Compute various statistical measures for reporting quantitative data

UNIT 2: ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING IN CLASSROOM

SECTION A: Student evaluation in transmission – reception (behaviourist) model of education

Transmission

The action or process of transmitting something, or the state of being transmitted.

 

In simply, transmission is the act of transferring something from one spot to another.

Transmission in teaching

 

From this perspective, teaching is the act of transmitting knowledge from point A (teacher’s head) to point B (student’s heads).

This is the teacher-centred approach in which the teacher is the dispenses of knowledge, the arbitrator of truth, and the final evaluator of learning.

 

Student evaluation in transmission – reception (behaviourist) model

 

Student evaluation in transmission reception model based on behaviourist theory.

[Behaviourist proposed that environmental stimuli and consequences shape behaviour and that learning occours through a process of operant conditioning.Operant conditioning influences reinforcing or punishing behaviours based on their outcomes].

Transmission reception is the model of learning where there is the model of teaching where there is the model of learning where there is a transmission of knowledge from external source (teacher) to the receiver (students).

Transmission is sending and receiving messages, knowledge, signals, which includes no scope for creativity, rigidity, and generally method of teaching is lecture method.