Evaluation Methods

Evaluation Methods

Benefits and challenges of Evaluation Methods

Formative Assessment

Benefits

Teachers can determine the standards that students are already aware of.

Teachers are able to decide what type of changes need to be made in the instructions so as to encourage all the students to learn best.

Teachers are able to formulate appropriate lessons as well as classroom-based activities for groups as well as individual students.

Teachers are able to provide students with instant updates on their progress, allowing them to set goals for improvement.

Students have a higher motivation level in terms of learning.

Students tend to take a greater degree of responsibility to learn.

Students learn critical skills that help them during a lifetime.

Challenges

Providing differentiated tasks is difficult, especially for higher-achieving students.

Teachers find it difficult to articulate progression.

Teachers find it tedious to translate the assessment criteria into a simple and coherent language that the students could understand.

Summative Assessment

Benefits

They can, if designed correctly, provide evidence for a cause-and-effect relationship.

They assess long-term effects.

They provide data on impacts.

They can provide data on change across time.

Challenges

Demands time and effort and causes fatigue and discouragement

Fails to capture the learning journey of individuals

Does not take into account student diversity

Does not promote deep learning

Poses a threat of influencing methods of teaching

Confirmative Evaluation

Benefits

Provides continuous quality control over the performance improvement package life cycle.

Identifies, explains, and confirms the value of the performance improvement intervention over time.

Helps decision makers select ways to manage the performers and the performance improvement package over time.

Challenges

Demands thorough analysis of existing processes

Demands time and effort

Causes fatigue and discouragement

Procedure for determining program effectiveness

Formative assessment

Formative assessment measures how effective or successful a teaching program is by conducting a thorough review of the learning outcomes of the students. This enables them to measure how much the children have learned and, allowing them to determine the effectiveness of the formative assessment.

Summative assessment

In order to measure how effective or successful a teaching program is, summative evaluation demands that the teacher conduct an analysis of the learning outcomes with the help of questionnaires or happy sheets. After completion of the program, the students are asked to assess the training process. This level of evaluation is different from those used in surveys as questionnaires might make enquiries from students regarding the relevance of objectives, interactivity, interest level, ease of navigation and perceived transferability to the workplace.

Confirmative assessment

Confirmative assessment measures the effectiveness of a program by analyzing an array of data that is related to processes before the performance objectives were redefined. Similarly, if the objective is to measure the quality of training, result-based data may be collected with the help of interrelated analyses - organizational, training investment analysis, causal chain, training cost, and performance.

Discuss costs associated with each of the evaluation types

The costs of assessment vary in accordance with the type of assessment method that is being used. For example, in the case of formative assessment, the cost will be minimal as it simply requires the teacher to ensure that the instructions communicated to the students in a classroom setting are understood and are being ...