Assessment methods

Assessment methods p12.4

Assessment centres should use a wide variety of well-designed assessment methods or tests. Assessment methods should link to the job description and person specification. The methods must be demonstrable as a fair selection process in the time taken, the number of tasks set and the opportunities for candidates to demonstrate their abilities.

Both group and individual assessment should be carried out (where suitable for the job), in order to allow candidates to demonstrate individual strengths and abilities to work with others.

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Assessment is used to measure a students ability to learn about a topic, right? Genuine assessment is a way to determine if the student learned and didn't just regurgitate the same thing back during the test.

When there is real learning going on then there can be true growth and additional information can be added on to deepen the subject matter.


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"Assessment is authentic when we directly examine student performance on worthy intellectual tasks. Traditional assessment, by contract, relies on indirect or proxy 'items'--efficient, simplistic substitutes from which we think valid inferences can be made about the student's performance at those valued challenges."
Grant Wiggins 1990