Monitoring and Assessment

Monitoring and Assessment

1. The outer circles of the curriculum design model (environment, needs and principles) provide data to guide the planning of the processes in the inner circle.

   • Guidelines for Monitoring and Assessment
     • That is, monitoring and assessment can provide a teacher and learners with information about the learners’ present knowledge and progress, and it can also be a means of encouraging involve-ment and participation.
       • Types of Monitoring and Assessment
         • The purpose of the monitoring and assessment part of curriculum design is to make sure that the learners will get the most benefit from the course.
           • Placement assessment, Observation of learning, Short-term achievement assessment, Diagnostic assessment, Achievement assessment and Proficiency assessment.
             • Good Assessment: Reliability, Validity and Practicality
               • All assessment needs to be checked to see that it is doing its job properly and that it is not causing unnecessary work.
                 • Reliability, Validity, Practicality
                   • What is an Evaluation?
                     • Evaluation requires looking both at the results of the course, and the planning and running of the course.
                       • Purpose and Audience of the Evaluation
                         • (1) large-scale evaluations which “tend to focus on major educational innovations with significant financial backing with an underlying agenda”, (2) teacher-led evaluations, and (3) management-led evaluations. A course evaluation can be an expensive and time-consuming procedure.
                           • The first critical step is to find out who the evaluation is for and what kind of information they value.
                             • The Type and Focus of the Evaluation
                               • It should be clear from this brief survey that a full-scale evaluation could be an enormous undertaking. It is therefore important to decide what the evaluation will focus on.
                                 • Gaining Support for the Evaluation
                                   • A course evaluation looks for strengths and weaknesses, but it is naturally the weaknesses that cause concern
                                   • Gathering the Information
                                     • The tools of needs analysis and the tools of evaluation are somewhat similar to each other.
                                     • The Results of an Evaluation
                                       • The results of an evaluation may also be threatening to the individuals concerned,especially if weaknesses are revealed

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