FS 5

Learning Assessment
Strategies

FIELD STUDY
Episode 1

MY ASSESSMENT LIST
Name of FS Student: Frences Mhae A. Abella
Course: Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in Mathematics Year & Section: 3-1
Resource Teacher: Mrs. Jean Mary Acain

Signature _____________________

Cooperating School: Canumay East National High School

Your Target
At the end of this activity, you will be keen at identifying and naming different
assessment methods used in the classroom.

Your Map
To be aware of the assessment tools that are used in the classrooms, you will find
interest in observing teachers assessment practices.
To hit your target, work your way through this steps.
Step 5: Reflect on your experience
.
Step 4: Confer with your FS teacher
your assessment list.
Step 3: Describe how each assessment
method was used, including your personal
observations.
Step 2: In your list, classify assessment methods
as to conventional and authentic/alternative.
Step 1: Observe at least three classes and make a list of
the assessment methods used by teachers.

Your Tools
As you visit schools and observe assessment practices in at least three classes,
document your observations using the activity forms provided for you in this book. For
your pen-and-paper test items, customize a table of specification, and prepare the test
material based on the prescriptions of the school where you do class observation.
CLASS OBSERVATION SHEET
(To be used during the actual observation of the class)
Name of the School Observed: a
School Address:
Date of Visit:
Year Level:
Subject Area:
Assessment Tools
DESCRIPTION
(Bulleted description of how the assessment method is
used relative to subject matter, levels of learning
behaviour, length, etc.)


1. Long Quiz

2. Oral Recitation

3. Exercise

The most commonly used pencil and paper

type of test.
The teacher gave such kind of assessment to
assess the students knowledge and how
they analyze situation.
The teacher gave a 25 item identification test
to his students.
The assessment is done a day after the
discussion of the topic.
An assessment tool that enhances the reasoning
ability of the students.
Assessed during the discussion.
The teacher asks the students about the concept
of the topic of the day.
The teacher can assess whether the students are
listening to what she is saying and she can also
know whether the students can apply their
learning to real world situation, and can also
diagnose the weakness and strength of the
students communicating skills.
Individual activity in naming compounds
The students are assessed if they are able to
name some compounds after their discussion
The teacher writes down the chemical formulas
and let the students name it.
The teacher gave the task unannounced so she
can assess whether the students are reviewing
their lessons even if there are no announced test,
so they will be ready always.

Your Analysis
1. Was there a variety of assessment methods used by the teacher? How relevant
was/were the assessment methods used?
Yes there were varieties of assessment methods used by the teachers
testing the students knowledge and ability by giving them different test to
assess how far did they already learned and how can they acquire more than
what they already know. They train students by giving them the chance to
learn by themselves with the guide of the teacher and they give them
motivation to enhance their study habits so they wont be behind the class.

The teacher give students tests and quizzes to assess their academic
performance and to know what adjustments are necessary to improve
learning, the assessment tools are used by the teachers to assess students
learning time by time so they will know the aligned strategy to use to their
learners.

2. Do you think the expected students learning behaviours indicated in the objectives
were properly and appropriately assessed through those assessment methods?
Students learning behaviours indicates that the assessment
methods properly assessed the students, like in the oral recitation, students
participated and answered the questions of the teacher, and even the
queries of their other classmates, their reasoning skill were enhanced during
the assessment. They were exposed to different ideas and opinions of others,
diverse learners. They have been aware of different notions about the
concept and the theories of the lesson. And as an educator, the teacher
should always aligned the assessment methods she will use to the objective
of the topic she will discuss.

Your Reflections
1. Write your personal reflection of thoughts and feelings about the importance in
the use of appropriate assessment methods in the classroom, including what
students and teachers can gain from appropriate assessment tools. Share your
reflection with your FS teacher and classmates.
Assessment is a very important tool used by teachers to determine if
the lesson they have presented is well transferred to their learners, in
education, assessment plays a vital role for it measures and tells whether a
teachers teaching strategy is effective or not, and it gives signal if the
teacher has to adjust and to improve his/her skills and strategies in teaching
diverse learners. In assessing our learners, a teacher should always be fair
and free the assessment from bias and assess objectively, not subjectively or
what others usually call favouritism. A teacher should make rubrics and
criteria in judging the learners since every learner have different learning
styles and multiple intelligences, some students are good in pencil and paper
exam, and some are good in expressing what they have learned orally, and
as a teacher, your role is to determine your learners weakness and strengths
so all of the students have equal opportunity in expressing their potentials
and enhance their weak points through the help of the teacher who should

be always considerate and patient to each and every learner that he/she
have to mold. So, the basic action for all of this is for the teacher to use
appropriate and proper assessment methods to different kind of learners.