Evaluation is an integral part of our educational system and can be of immense value in maintaining and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning.
Education is chiefly concerned with developing and modifying the patterns of behaviour in human beings, in the realms of thinking, feeling and acting. It uses the prescribed curriculum as a means for bringing about these changes. Every curriculum aims to bring about desired changes in the learner.
Therefore, first of all, the intended learning outcomes or the Instructional Objectives must be identified in two dimensions :
- Behavioural Processes
- Content of the curriculum
These are written in terms of what the students will be able to do, after receiving the learning experience. Instructional objectives provide proper direction to both the teachers and the learners. The instructional objectives are the starting points for planning of effective learning experiences. Learning experiences are to be provided in relation to the instructional objectives. For effective learning experiences, the teacher is supposed to acquaint himself with the entering behaviour of the students, i.e. what they already know, standard achieved and level of maturity. In accordance with the necessary background, learning experiences are provided otherwise remedial teaching is resorted to, before starting the teaching of new learning experiences. The last step in teaching i.e., evaluation or performance assessment is resorted to, before starting the teaching of new learning experiences. This is necessary for making judgement of the extent to which the intended learning outcomes have been achieved. Evaluation is also necessary to judge the effectiveness of the learning experiences.
When the performance of most of the students is not satisfactory on a particular concept or topic, the learning experiences should be planned again on the basis of available evidence. Organize re-teaching, using revised instructional material and re-evaluation. It is only after careful analysis of the results of re-evaluation, that we can judge the suitability of the instructional objectives. Thus Evaluation helps us to validate the whole teaching-learning process and is Evaluation In Teaching- directed towards its improvement through regular feedback.
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