Teaching Prepared by Caroline W. Ndirangu

TYPES OF EVALUATION
Formative Evaluation
The student feedback on their performance is very important.
Everybody would like to know how well he/she is doing and experiencing success 
is a strong motivation to continue our efforts to learn.
Even the evidence that we have not accomplished a task may cause us to try 
harder. Of course, continuous failure usually has negative effect and may lead to 
student’s giving up and even dropping out of school.
Because education has such a strong effect on student action teachers must be 
especially conscious of how their evaluation activities affect the students.
Realistic feedback can serve to reinforce students on things they are doing well 
and show them where improvement is needed. Evaluation serves to shape student 
behaviour in a desired direction. Sometimes they do not know where they are 
going wrong.
Evaluation is designed to give students immediate feedback, therefore helps to 
form or shape the students learning, a continuous process that takes place throu-
ghout the instruction.
A means of reporting student progress is a form of evaluation that sums up and 
takes place at the end of the instruction.
In Secondary Schools, teachers are required to assign grades to all students at a 
given period e.g. every six weeks or end of term. This report card will now be used 
to extract the relevant information to the learner, teacher and guardian.
This is done by invoking an unknown but written scheme on the meaning of 
percentage marks.
Below 20 
 
- Very poor
30%   
 
- Poor
30% to 45%    
- Weak
45% to 55%   
- Average
55% to 70%   
- Fair
70% to 80 %   
- Good
Above 80% 
 
- Very good
There is a great deal of impression in the way verbal descriptive terms have been 
used to interpret achievement.

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•  The section of the report that states that the student must repeat the 
class (failure) or move to the next class (normal promotion) or discon-
tinue the course (very poor) holds the attention of the parent/guardian 
since the cost of education has risen.
•  Such report should help parents/guardian to form a good mental image 
of the attainment levels and prospects of their children.
•  The schools and colleges are therefore expected to render regular ac-
counts to parents of the performance of their children using the type of 
language they will understand.