Asbury College Incorporated

Poblacion, Anda, Pangasinan 2405 Philippines

College Department
AY 2023-2024

SYLLABUS: ASSESSMENT IN LEARNING 1

Course Title: Assessment in Learning 1

Instructress: Maricel B. Capa
Email: capamaricel96@gmail.com
Time Frame: 18 weeks/ 54 hours
Platform: Face to Face

I. MISSION, VISION
A. Mission
Asbury College will sustain excellence in all developmental areas through united efforts of
administration, faculty, staff and stakeholders.
B. Vision
Asbury College envisions a sustainable Christian institution that provides quality education for the total
development towards the transformation of the society.

II. Course Description

This is a course that focuses on the principles, development and utilization of conventional and
innovative assessment tools to improve the teaching-learning process. It emphasizes on the use of assessment
of, as and for, in measuring knowledge, comprehension and other thinking skills in the cognitive, psychomotor
or affective domains. It allows students to go through the standard steps in test construction and development
and its application in assessing learning. It provides the students training in scoring, organizing, analysing,
interpreting and communicating assessment results and how they are used in improving teaching and learning.
The course provides engaging and varied learning opportunities with integration of technology that will allow
them to: (a) meet the program outcomes and standards of beginning teacher; (b) develop the 21 st century
skills of collaboration, communication, critical thinking and problem solving, and creative thinking; (c) be
healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged.

Course Desired Learning Outcome

The pre-service teachers trained to be professional beginning teacher should be able to show
knowledge, skills, and desirable attitudes and values in developing and using high quality written tests in
gathering, analysing, interpreting, communicating, and reporting assessment data to improve teaching and
learning.

Course Contents (Topics)

Week 1-5 Topics
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION TO ASSESSMENT IN LEARNING
 Lesson 1: Basic Concepts and Principles in Assessing Learning
o What is assessment in learning – Untalan’s Group
o What are the different measurement frameworks used in assessment?
o What are the different types of assessment in learning?
o What are the different principles in assessing learning?
 Lesson 2: Assessment Purposes, Learning Targets, and Appropriate Methods
o What is the purpose of classroom assessment?
o What are learning targets?
 The Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
 The Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
 Types of Learning Targets
 Appropriate Methods of Assessment
 Lesson 3: Different Classifications of Assessment Alemania’s Group
o What are the different classifications of assessment?
o When do we use educational and psychological assessment?
o When do we use paper-and-pencil and performance-based type of assessments?
o How do we distinguish teacher-made from standardized test?
o What information is sought from achievement and aptitude tests?
o How do we differentiate speed from power test?
o How do we differentiate norm-referenced from criterion-referenced test?
CHAPTER II: DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF TESTS
  Lesson 4: Planning a Written Test
o Why do we need to define the test objectives or learning outcomes targeted for assessment?
o What are the objectives for testing?
o What is a table of specifications?
o What are the general steps in developing a table of specifications?
o What are the different formats of a test table of specifications
Week 6
 Preliminary Examination

Week 7-11 Topics

 Lesson 5: Construction of Written Tests – Calicdan’s Group
o What are the general guidelines in choosing the appropriate test format?
o What are the major categories and formats of traditional tests?
o What are the general guidelines in writing multiple-choice test items?
o What are the general guidelines in writing true or false items?
o What are the general guidelines in writing short-answer test items?
o What are the general guidelines in writing essay tests?
o What are the general guidelines in writing problem-solving test items?
 Lesson 6: Establishing Test Validity and Reliability – Atencio’s Group
o What is test reliability?
o What are the different ways to establish test reliability?
o What is test validity?
o What are the different ways to establish test validity?
o How to determine if an item is easy or difficult?
Week 12
 Midterm Examination

Week 13-14 Topics

CHAPTER III: ORGANIZATION, UTILIZATION, AND COMMUNICATION OF TEST RESULTS – Rantayo’s Group
 Lesson 7: Organization of test data using tables and graphs
o How do we organize and present ungrouped data through tables?
o How do we present test data graphically?
o Which graph is best?
o What are the variations on the shapes of frequency distributions?
 Lesson 8: Analysis, Interpretation, and Use of Test Data – Cabungan’s Group
o What are the measures of central tendency?
o What are the measures of dispersion?
o What are the measures of position
o What are standard scores?
o What are the measures of covariability
 Lesson 9: Grading and Reporting of Test Results – Caras’s Group
o What are the purposes of grading and reporting learner’s test performance?
o What are the different methods in scoring tests or performance tasks?
o What are the different types of test scores?
o What are the general guidelines in grading tests or performance tasks?
o What are the general guidelines in grading essay tests?
o What is the new grading system of the Philippine K-12 Program?
o How should test results be communicated to different stakeholders?
Week 18
 Final Examination

CLASS REQUIREMENTS:
1. Attendance
2. Examination (Prelim/Midterm/Final)
3. Project/Final requirements
4. Quizzes and Written Outputs
5. Discussion Paper & Oral Presentation of Assigned Topics
6. Class Participation
7. Performance
BASIS FOR EVALUATION
1. Quizzes and Written Outputs 15%
2. Attendance/Class Participation/Performance 20%
3. Discussion Paper & Oral Presentation of Assigned Topics 25%
4. Project/Final requirements 25%
5. Examination 15%
100%