CHAPTER REVIEW

By: Evi Mala Wijayanti

Book Identity

Title : Classroom Assessment

Authors : Lorin W. Anderson
Publisher : LEA Publisher, London
Year : 2003
Chapter to be reviewed : 1 & 2
Summary of The
Chapter
Chapter 1: Introduction to
Classroom Assessment
■ This chapter finds out that there are two important
things related to classroom assessment. They are
classroom assessment itself and the action after that:
desicion making.

Classroom
assessment

Decision
making
The Quality of Information

■ Validity : The extend to which the information obtained from an

assessment instrument (e.g test) or method (e.g observation) enables you to
accomplish the purpose for which the information was collected

■Reliability : The consistency of the information obtained from one or more

assessment

■Objectivity : the score assigned by different people highly similar

Chapter 2: The Why, What, and When of
Assessment

In classroom assessment, there are four things need to

be considered:
1. The purposes of classroom assessment
2. The basis of classroom assessment
3. The timing of classroom assessment
4. The method of classroom assessment

Classroom
assessment

Why the What the When the How the

assessment is information need information is information is
being made? to make decision? needed? being collected?
Why the assessment What the information
is being made? need to make
decision?

■ Teachers assess their ■ Assessing students

students to inform the achievement
decisions they make ■ Assessing students
about them. effort
■ Assessing classroom
behavior
When the information How the information
is needed? is being collected?

■ Teacher should assess ■ Teachers can examine

students when they need information that already
information to make exist;
decision about them. ■ Teachers can observe
students in their natural
habitats;
■ Teacher wants to know
whether their students
have learned what they
were supposed to learn.
 The Ethics of Assessment

1. Strive to obtain information that is highliy valid, reliable, and

objective before making important decision that affect
students;
2. Recognize the limitations inherent in making decision based
on information obtained from assessment;
3. Do not use information obtained from assessments to
demean or ridicule students;
4. Do not disclose assessment information about students
unless disclosure serves a compelling professional purpose
or is required by law
Review
Strengths Weaknesses

■ The book emphasizes not only in ■ The book doesn’t discuss the
classroom assessment, but also to difference between assessment,
the action after that: Decision measurement, testing, and
making; evaluation;
■ The book provides the important
things related to classroom
assessment: why, what, when and
how the classroom assessment need
to be conducted;
■ The book discuss the issues of
classroom assessment. One of them
is the ethics of assessment
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