Disadvantages of Traditional/Standardized Assessment
- Traditional ways of testing can sample only a fraction of what we want to produce and play a judgmental role and not a developmental.
- Summative and usually designed and administered by people outside the learning process.
- Takes a lot of teaching time and are very often not followed up as a basis for future teaching.
- Provision of discriminative numerical marks, useless descriptions rather than the provision of formative feedback.
- Learners as powerless victims rather than active participants in the learning process.
- Teacher-centered.
- Limited time frames; it is a “one shot” event that gives the learner only one chance to show competence.
- Not individualized and cannot be tailored to the needs of individual learners.
- Tests are not always fair as they do not account for individual differences (multiple intelligences / different learning styles etc)
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