Activity 5

                                                                                                               March 27th, 2012

CLASS ACTIVITY 5

A GOOD EVALUATION

Characteristics of good evaluation

- Validity: A valid evaluation is one which actually measures the behavior described by the objective(s); under scrutiny the teachers should known firstly the level of pre-knowledge of their students.

-Reliability: Is when the evaluation produces the same result under different but comparable conditions. The evaluation should reflect the objectives. A valid test includes reliability but a reliable test sometimes is not necessarily valid.

-Practicability: procedure of evaluation should be realistic, practical and efficient according to the reality of the context in which evaluation takes place.

-Fairness: it refers that the teacher must tell the student what kind of test he is going to use and how they are going to be evaluated.

-Usefulness: An evaluation is useful when the teacher works with the result that students got. Giving an appropriate feedback in which they can know in what aspects are weak or strong and how they can improve. And if the teacher does the right feedback the student will be more aware of their achievement.