The correct assessment of a student’s ability and skills is always a challenge for the pedagogical community in schools and universities. Weekly tests, viva, term and final examinations have been the traditional methods of assessing student competence and of rating them in a class.
To devise sophisticated methods of student assessment has always been a challenge in pedagogy. Marks and percentages have been the traditional methods of student appraisal in class. But this form of appraisal does have a negative fall out. While it can breed competition among students to excel, it might also lead to inferior feelings among students who do not do well.
The traditional methods do not take into account the fact that children have unique talent and abilities. Measures of assessment therefore should take into account the diverse abilities of students. Students need to be assessed not just in subject knowledge, but also on project submissions, group work, arts and sports activities.
This kind of broad assessment would not only eliminate unhealthy competition, as the same measure is not applied to all, but also encourage students to develop their own unique talents.
The grade and percentile system is a much better system of assessment than the marks and percentages system, which does have severe limitations. The percentile system is perhaps one of the best assessment methods in use nowadays. A percentile measures position from the bottom. The percentile rank is the percentage of scores that fall at or below a given score. For example, a test score that is greater than 85% of the scores of people taking the test, is rated as the 85th percentile.
Percentile rank is commonly used to interpret a raw score in standardized tests. The introduction of broad and diverse grading and percentile system within our schools is essential in eliminating discriminatory assessment policies.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile_rank
http://cnx.org/content/m10805/latest/
http://regentsprep.org/REgents/math/ALGEBRA/AD6/quartiles.htm
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