Meeting 2 REFLECTIONS:
We measure distance, we assess learning, and we evaluate results in terms of some set of criteria, the conclusion made by Dr. Bob Kizlik.
Evaluation is engaging in some process that is designed to provide information that will help us make a judgment about a given situation.
Testing is also called assessment and involves an interaction with the student to reveal the knowledge that the child has retained from the class lessons.
Assessment is a process by which information is obtained relative to some known objective or goal.
Measurement refers to the process by which the attributes or dimensions of some physical object are determined. It is simply collecting information relative to some established rule or standard. Assessment is therefore quite different from measurement, and has uses that suggest very different purposes.
“Choose a partner to discuss with on how you felt back when you were in your High School when given a test,” the next activity after the review. Seated with Teresa Mingo, my partner, we followed the instruction. Bringing back High School memory when a test is announced in advance, both of us claimed to really have always prepared for the evaluation. Perhaps, both of us belong to the A Type of student, the one who does the homework, is always obedient, always good, and responsible. But like other high school students, when given an unannounced test, there is always the feeling of anxiety due to unpreparedness. But still, ready or not, the quiz must go on.
However, our experiences in high school were so much different from that of Mr. Bean’s. His funny video, I think, showed the behavior of a student who is really stubborn, for even with the professor telling them to work independently and silently, really did something mischievous just to get answers from his seatmate. Mr. Bean prepared for some other subject, Trigonometry if I’m not mistaken, but the envelope he opened was the questionnaire on Calculus. And that was the beginning of his panic.
That behavior is also true to other students who panic for being so surprised. And in actual classroom setting, students like Mr. Bean really exist. In fact, some suffer from mental block, and experiencing headache and stomach ache due to nervous. So, there is a challenge on the part of the teacher on what to do with students like Mr. Bean - ignore, or reprimand. With that panicking, cheating arise.
Cheatings during examinations have now become rampant in the different level of educational ladder. It is not only in elementary, high school, and college classrooms, but also in national professional examinations.
A friend of mine, also now a master teacher of an elementary school in our division, confessed to me one time, when we attended a Civil Service Examination orientation that he took a Civil Service Exam of his brother who lacks self-confidence in taking the test. And because my friend knew he was cheating, he felt so guilty the entire period during the exam. Then after passing the paper, was a sigh of relief. But suddenly, when he was going away from the campus, a policeman called “Ernest, Ernest!”. And he didn’t mind, because he wasn’t Ernest. He has a different name. But then he remembered it was the name of his brother, and so he looked back, and the policeman stopped running after him, and said “You forgot to sign.”
“Whew!”, he thought he was caught up on his cheating. Then, the day was over, but at present, that terrifying guilt he felt one time, is vividly remembered by him until now.
To some, cheating gives real self-excitement, but to some few, they don’t do things that they know they soon would regret.
In classroom, as included in Dr. Alonsabe’s lecture, it would be better to allow students to open their notes, to avoid cheating, which I strongly agree, because like in my Mathematics class, I allow calculator-use to the students. For I believe, that no matter what materials are made available, if students do not know how to use them, materials will be of no use.
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