Educational Evaluation: Types, Functions, and Methods
What are the Functions of Each Evaluation?
Formative evaluation function, diagnostic evaluation function, prognostic evaluation function, function-oriented evaluation.
What is Diagnostic Evaluation?
It is used before any educational process to understand the student’s current state. Diagnostic evaluation can use different procedures such as written or oral questions, thematic group discussions on specific topics (e.g., NRTI), observing the student’s activity related to the topic, etc.
What is Formative Assessment?
This is the most important evaluation within the educational process. Students receive feedback (and of course, provide feedback to the professor) regarding their performance, what has been achieved, what has not been adequately learned, which operations indicate greater ability and which do not, with what degree of independence and speed they act, etc.
1. What is Curriculum Evaluation?
It is a permanent research process that allows analyzing the different components of the curriculum, the institution’s reality, and the social environment in which the curriculum plan is developed.
2. How is Curriculum Evaluation Divided?
Internal curriculum evaluation and external curriculum evaluation.
3. What are the Stages of the Decision-Making Process?
Information, knowledge, experience, analysis.
1. What are the Assessment Types?
Context assessment, input evaluation, process evaluation, product evaluation.
2. What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Expert Judgment Evaluation?
Advantages
- It is easy to carry out, mainly in the administrative field.
- There is no limit to the variables that can be considered.
- It is economical in terms of time, and it is not necessary to wait for data analysis to obtain information.
- The evaluator’s experience is taken into account in the judgments issued.
Disadvantages
- The level of reliability and objectivity of the evaluation process is very low.
- Lack of clarity on the part of the expert regarding the criteria on which the judgments are based, the variables, and the means used.
3. What is the Purpose of Product Evaluation?
The purpose of product evaluation is to collect descriptions and make judgments about the product’s value, interpret its merit regarding the results of the program, and relate them to the objectives, context information, input data, and process.
1. What are the Functions of Diagnostic Evaluation?
- Determine the student’s initial level of learning.
- Establish whether the student has mastered the objectives of a certain unit.
- Determine the student’s characteristics to adequately select teaching methods and techniques.
2. What is Formative Assessment?
It is the systematic process of collecting information during the development of the teaching-learning process.
3. What is Summative Assessment?
It is the degree of achievement of the stated objectives by the student.
1. List Five Instruments Useful for Carrying Out Continuous Evaluation
Systematic observation, oral tests, written tests, interviews, surveys and questionnaires, case analysis.
2. How Does Systematic Evaluation Aid in Teaching Sports Activities?
- It helps introduce successive adjustments to courses, correcting errors and optimizing effectiveness.
- It improves the individual performance and collective performance of the teacher through feedback provided by the students.
3. How Should Continuous Assessment be Measured?
Continuous assessment should be measured as an integral part of the process, with each stage contributing to the achievement of the objectives.
1. Why is Educational Evaluation Scientific?
It is scientific because it is based on all the manifestations of the student’s work and does not resort to mere observation, but also uses methods and techniques that guarantee reliability.
2. Why is Educational Evaluation Cooperative?
It is cooperative because it demands the active participation of all those involved in the teaching-learning process, both in the analysis and revision of the results of the evaluation process.
3. Why is Educational Evaluation Cumulative?
Educational evaluation is cumulative because, in addition to fulfilling a function of measuring results with an instrument, it allows for the development of teamwork, research, and class participation.