Evaluation/Assessment

Assesment and evaluation are very important parts of the constructive alignment process. 

Well-designed assessments will allow your students to use the knowledge and skills they have learnt and indicate their level of mastery. The feedback on the assessments will also provide students with clear information on the criteria they need to match to succeed at the tasks and can give the lecturer a clearer sense of how the task is assessing mastery and what aspects are being assessed. Evaluation of the course by students and lecturers should feed back into the whole process of curriculum alignment and reflect critically on the outcomes, the teaching and learning activities, the assessments and the experience of the course. Reflexivity and continous learning and development are key aims to successful evaluation.

The evaluation of students should be done both formatively and summatively and based around:

• Class participation.

• Student contributions during the delivery.

• Homework assignments.

• Examinations and any online quizzes.

Assesment is a process that includes four basic components:

1. Measuring improvement over time
2. Motivating students in study
3. Evaluating the teaching methods
4. Ranking the students' capabilities in relation to the whole group evaluation

The purpose of classroom assessment and evaluation is to give students the opportunity to show what they have learned rather than catching them out or to show what they have not learned.