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    four kinds of assessments. One initial assessment: A progress during which start to build up a picture of a leaner’s achievements, skills, previous learner, goals and learning needs. This will help to place learners in appropriate learning programmes. Assessment number two is diagnostic assessment: A detailed assessment of a learner’s existing skills and areas of need with respect to a particular subject area. Assessment number three is formative assessment; this is an ongoing assessment of what process

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    Principles and practice of assessment Introduction; Assessment is viewed as a critical part of teaching and learning to ensure that the required outcomes and criteria for the qualification are achieved by both the tutor and the student. Assessment is the means of obtaining information, which allows teachers, pupils and parents to make judgements about pupil progress.  The starting point for this is the curriculum and the processes of learning and teaching. Assessment is a tool for reflection

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    meaning of “Assessments” on the NAEYC website, I came across several different reasons to way it is important. Assessment is defined as the measurement of what students are learning. Student achievement is defined as how well they’ve mastered certain target skills. Assessments provide educators with both objective and subjective data in order to ascertain student progress and skill mastery. No matter what we are doing in the classroom with our students around we are doing some type of assessment. Now NAEYC

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    responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning GROUP B 1: Understanding inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learning GROUP B 2: Using inclusive learning and teaching approaches in lifelong learning GROUP D: Principle of assessment in lifelong learning Each group (Group A, Group B1, Group B2 and Group D) is made up of sub-headings and questions or “statements of competence”. Group: Group A, Group B1, Group B2 and Group D Sub-headings: (Example) (1.Understand own role

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    Speech Therapy is my number one career choice. In many ways, it represents my second, third, and fourth career choices. Educators teach and lead young people towards success. Legislators draft politics that improve processes for their constitutions. And professional basketball players commit themselves to extensive practice to master the skills of their profession. As a speech therapist, I want to see myself incorporating all three. I want to master the skills of assessing, work to improve the processes

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    Introduction Assessment plays important role in medical education and training of doctors. Assessment methods have evolved over the last decade from written tests towards a holistic system of evaluation (Howley, 2004). New methods of assessment tools have emerged with emphasis based on real world testing. Medical education and assessment has shifted towards competency-based training (PMETB, 2008). OSCE has been widely used as an assessment tool worldwide in both undergraduate and postgraduate exams

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    Dynamic Assessment According to Gillam, Peña, and Miller (1999) assessment of discourse is a challenging but important aspect of assessing language. They highlight that cultural and experiential differences may be a factor in a child’s performance. Simply, some children may not have been exposed to these types of narratives or been expected to generate them in their home environment. The authors suggest that good language learners usually learn the new forms or overcome the differences with extra

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    Assignment Analyse the purpose of assessment: Assessment is the process of collecting and evaluating achievement. It should always test the learner, but be clearly understood by the learner too. (Tummons 2007,p.5) states that Assessment ensures that we can motivate and encourage learners as well as diagnosing their learning needs. Also it allows us to evaluate learning progress as well as allowing the process of selection to take place. “The primary purpose of assessment is it improve students’ learning

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    and development are consistently being assessed. Assessment has occured throughout all aspects of my education, from the spelling tests I took in elementray school, to the Connecticut Mastery tests, to the SAT’s in high school, and even to the placement tests I took for the community college I attended. These assessments may not have been the most pleasurable experiences that occurred during my education, but they were very important. Assessment is so important for education because it is, “…crucial

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    Conduct Assessments

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    Ways to conduct assessments Assessment in counseling should be viewed not as a one-time prediction activity but rather as continuous throughout the counseling process (Juhnke, 1995). In the future I would conduct assessments for each of my clients before service is conducted to gather information about them and when there have been any types of disruption with the client while receiving services. Conducting assessments would help to determine what goals to set and other resources that the client

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