K to 12 Assessment: The Periodic Way

Lynn M. Besa, Jazel C. Erquiza, Richard E. Parcon

Abstract


Testing shows a versatility feature of social life (McNamara, 2010: p. 25) yet the traditional way of assessing learner’s progress have sustained in most language classrooms which brought a gap between the intended outcome and the way it is achieved. Therefore, what should be assessed and how learning should be assessed in order to assure that the students have acquired the expected competencies? K-12 program clear out that classroom assessment should be based on the curriculum framework and curriculum of guide of every discipline. Assessment should assess the content standard, performance standard, learning competencies and concept development. The researchers prompted to associate the periodical tests provided to the learners and the overall aims of the program and explore the areas of the tests to evaluate its alignment to of learning, as learning and of learning.  The researchers made use of quantitative – qualitative approach to evaluate the Grade VII periodical tests used from S.Y. 2014-2018 from the Divisions of Marikina, Pasig, and Mandaluyong Cities. Table of Specifications were utilized as a basis in constructing the test items, which were devised by the researchers in order to have uniformity of the table pattern.

https://doi.org/10.26803/ijhss.11.4.3


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assessment, competencies, performance, periodical tests, Table of specifications

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