Teachers who want to evalute their pupils' achievements fairly and honestly provide a broad base on which to determine final performance as far as academic is concerned.
Inorder to check pupil's achievements in their curriculum activities ,the teacher can evaluation analysis of pupil's performance at the end of lesson,day,week ,term or year.There are variety of methods of evaluation on how the teacher can implement and assess learners.
Evaluation is done to identify the areas of strength and weakness during the pupils' learning performance.It can be carried after specific period and thereafter done on regular basis as it is the candlelight of what needs to be done to improve teaching and learning to achieve aims,goals and objectives of learning.
It can be noted that evaluation is an important aspect to both the teacher and the learners.The teacher can evaluate pupils by giving them marks or grades , even rewards for excelling well so that they can be motivated or spot areas of weakness and how can be improved.
The teacher can evaluate his teaching methods,learner's organisation,introductions to the lessons,learning environment ,media,objectives of the lessons or the content taught.
The teacher can evaluate pupils' performances by assessing them during the course of the lesson through,asking them oral questions,their groupwork activities ,their moods during lessons as well as meeting the objectives of the lesson.
Evaluation can be done by giving pupils task to write in their exercise books at the end of the lesson.The pupils are exposed to this because ,the teacher wants to check the pupils' understanding of the concepts,their capacity of thinking and how will achieve at the end of every given exercise.If they grasped the concept then their performance will be very high and if their performance is low then the teacher has to reteach the lesson again or give the few who failed the remadial exercise.Evaluation can be tested to find if the learners can apply the knowledge elsewhere in different life situations.
Evaluation can also be done through giving learners some weekly ,fortnight tests.The tests are given after atleast two or three topics covered to check pupils' memory and skill development in learning.The teacher can ask questions which demand recalling,application of knowledge,use of different skills in various situations.These challenging tests should review whether pupils achieve well in every topic in the test .Thus ,it's a way of checking their weak areas .This will help them to be assisted before sit for examinatin.Tests create a challenging base to pupils,ie it creates a competitive area,reinforce what they had learnt and how can be used in different life situation.Because of marks,grades or other rewards given ,pupils will be in a position to work hard and achieve better.Tests given encourage students to review and clarify concepts.Teachers can also found the progress of their learners and work mainly on the areas of weakness.
Assignments done by pupils away from school in their home area can be evaluated.The teacher can check how learners can remember to do assigned task at home and how extra effort they put on their academic work at home.The teacher will then be able to check weak and strong areas on those given assignments.The pupils' achievements can be observed in laboratory demostrations ,for example on the topic on nutrients ,pupils will be asked to identify nutrients found in particular foods .By so doing the teacher will be able to evaluate how the pupils have achieved in carrying the experiments.
The pupils can also be asked to give presentations for example samples in home economics, by so doing the teacher is able to evaluate how each pupil will achieve to construct those samples.
When pupils are carrying projects either individually or in groups.The teacher can evaluate how each pupil can able to do a project alone,what talented is s/he and how can be assisted to be motivated and perfect further.Projects like taking survey of people's activities in a certain community or reporting sports events.The other projects can be done in groups such as garden,studying the local physical environment .The teacher can evaluate how these individuals can able to work as a team, and how can they be organised next time to produce even results.
So it can be noted there are so many evaluation needed to be taken in learning and teaching. There are so many other evaluations left like,media,content and so on.It is important to carry evaluation ,because a variety of evaluative methods are suitable to different students who do well on different types of measures.
Therefore the teacher can seriously assess pupil's work in the coursework ,by so doing the teacher will be able to check where the student is not doing well and what new strategy need to be taken for the learner to achieve the set goals.
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