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My Philosophy of Assessing Learning

Wang Fei

Salt Lake Community College

Assessment aims at promoting teaching and learning, guiding and helping students

for the self-understanding, self-educating, and self-developing. It tells the teachers and the

students what are the existing problems. It serves teachers to improve their teaching quality

and students' learning efficiency. It is one of the most important parts in helping students to

understand more and better.

I believe assessing the student to learn is not only focusing on the test scores now

but also caring about how much progress the students make. Not only pay attention the

current results, but also the process that contributed to the current results. Not only care about

the comparison between the students, but also the students self-comparison.

If I have my own classroom in the future, my assessment of students learning will

not only base on test scores but also base on the student's behaviors, students' self-evaluation,

language ability, attitude, participation, cooperation and cognitive level of related tests. I will

observe their behaviors, language use, behavior, and attitude in the class. I will specify

abstract goals in the standards into observable behavior. For example, if students learn the

term weather, they should know the expressions about weather and how to talk about the

weather. To make the students know the goal of learning and get a better result, I will tell the

students what is the standard of assessment and clearly direct them to learn. At the end of the

class, I will ask the students to do the practice in groups. After class, I may assign some
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homework about the concept, such as let students talk about the weather today with their

parents or friends. In the process of using this knowledge, they will understand more about it.

At the end of each unit, I will test students the related knowledge in the past unit for recalling

what they learn in the past days.

In conclusion, assessment is one of the most important parts in helping students to

understand more and better. I believe assessing the student to learn is not only focusing on the

test scores now but also caring about how much progress the students make. If I have my own

classroom in the future, I will not only assess learning based on test scores but also based on

the student's behaviors, students' self-evaluation, language ability, attitude, participation,

cooperation and cognitive level of related tests.

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Reference

Don Kauchak &Paul Egen. (2013). Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional (5th

Edition). Pearson.