Shikshan Anveshika
Year : 2013, Volume : 3, Issue : 2
First page : ( 31) Last page : ( 38)
Print ISSN : 2231-1386.

Reflective assessment: Concept and strategies

Yadava Shalini

School of Education, GGSIP University, Dwarka, New Delhi-110078

Online published on 20 February, 2014.

Abstract

Over the last decade alternative assessment strategies have become an important part of the debate regarding the reform and restructuring of Indian education. The purpose of assessment should be to improve student learning, which means it should be integral to the teaching and learning process. For this to occur, a seamlessness needs to exist between teaching, learning, and assessment through which students are empowered to take increased responsibility for their learning. Reflective assessment grows out of strong theoretical roots including ancient Greek thought, the philosophy of John Dewey, and cognitive constructivist learning theories. Assessment and grading procedures designed to permit only a few students to succeed (those at the top of the rank-order distribution) must now be revised to permit the possibility that all students could succeed at some appropriate level. In short, the entire emotional environment surrounding the prospect of being evaluated must change, especially for perennial low achievers. The students’ sole aim is no longer merely to beat other students in the achievement race. At least part of their goal must be to become competent. Teachers must believe that all students can achieve a certain level of academic success, must bring all of their students to believe this of themselves, must accommodate the fact that students learn at different rates by making use of different instruction, and must guide all students towards the attainment of standards. The driving dynamic force for students cannot merely be competition for an artificial scarcity of success, because all students can and must succeed in meeting standards, cooperation and collaboration must come into play. This paper is an attempt to clarify the concept of Reflective assessment on one hand and elucidate the strategies which may be used on the other

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Keywords

Reflective Assessment, Evaluation, Strategies.

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