Teaching is my Passion

 Importance of Assessment 

in the teaching and learning process: 

    Assessment is a powerful weapon it can either encourage students to learn, improve and succeed or else it might destroy their desire to learn or succeed. At the end , it is only the students themselves who are going to decide whether they are going to learn or not and our job is to help and motivate them to learn and benefit from our teaching.

So an educator must pay attention to his assessment practices in every step in the teaching and learning process and try to use what best fits his students, what motivates them and what make them feel that they are capable to learn and to value what they have learned. 

Build positive relationships with  students should be the concern of teachers to assure their engagement in learning. Teachers have to show their students that they love what they are doing.

On the other hand, the assessment methods teachers are going to use must have clear purposes and clear objectives that should be clear to the students as well. Teachers should assure to their students that all can succeed and that their success is important.

In addition to that, educators should understand the importance of quality assessment by putting it in sound practice that targets the best learning of their learners. At the end it is only through assessment with all its types that we can know and understand how our students are learning. This is why it is very important that educators should understand the importance of quality assessment and follow certain sound standards to guide their assessment practices in their classrooms. This can only start when we have our students understand that they shouldn’t be afraid of assessment. On the contrary, we should implement in them the motivation and love of assessment. So when teachers have clear purposes, clear targets and sound designs for their assessment and when they match their targets with their assessment methods, students understand how they are being assessed. They have clear idea of the criteria used in the assessment method and how are they are going to be judged which gives them a sense of motivation to work in a comfortable environment. Teachers should pay attention to the quality and type of questions she uses in her assessment. Teachers must also consider the different learning styles of students. So we have to work on improving our students’ desire to learn and sound assessment plays a very big role in achieving this purpose.