Why We Need to Change Our Mode of Assessment?
Teachers must use multiple measures and diverse avenues of expression to continuously assess the current knowledge of students. Alternative assessment implies that there is a need to be new formats for gathering information about student’s achievements, new processes which information is synthesized and that formats and processes should seek to serve the welfare for each students. Primary beneficiary of assessment should be the learner or student (Maclellan, 2004). Teachers' exercises with students can involve essays, discussions, classroom projects, and other programs designed to show material to students and impart knowledge that the teachers can then observe and measure. Such measurements and observations, however, do not always translate easily to exams, according to teachers. Teachers are facilitators, guides, co investigators while students as producers, apprentices and co explorers.
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