Purpose of Assessment

1. How does assessment affect learning? The assessment process itself helps students develop critical thinking and analysis skills, and also helps students internalize knowledge, turning what and how they learn into a well of resources they can use in the future

2. What are we assessing? Assessment inspire us to ask these hard questions: 1. Are we teaching what we think we are teaching? 2. Are students learning what they are supposed to be learning? 3. Is there a way to teach the subject better, thereby promoting better learning?"

3. Why Do we assess ? Assessment for learning is an ongoing process that monitors student learning in order to help teachers improve their teaching and students to improve their learning. It continuously informs instruction and helps students manage their own learning. The assessment information is used to determine the next teaching steps and learning steps to continuously improve the teaching-learning process.