Evaluate Application of Knowledge
Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas
There is a constant flow of knowledge that goes in our schools. This flow of knowledge is diverted through the school, by the teachers, and on to the students. Knowledge, however, can also flow from the students, like a spring of water in the wilderness, and make its way to the school, and into the community, by having students both apply and demonstrate what they know, to present solutions to the problems that we face.
APPLICATION
What can the student do with the knowledge? Knowledge should not remain stagnant as it settles in the student's minds, but rather, the student should be capable of applying their knowledge on a daily basis. They should demonstrate that they know what they are doing with the knowledge, and how that can help both them and us make improvements to our day to day life. By allowing students to demonstrate that they can apply the knowledge learned in schools, we, as educators, are also given the opportunity to evaluate the performance of the student's education. One example of evaluation can be done by presenting a problem to the students, and look at the solutions that the students demonstrate, then evaluate the application of knowledge the students apply to the solutions they present for the problems they have been presented with.
Education needs evaluation to ensure that the flow of information in educational knowledge is allowed to flow like rivers through valleys as our students do when they pass to class on the hallways of our schools. This flow of information should also be evaluated to ensure that it can continuously cycle from teachers, to students, to the community, to the schools, and back to those whose duty is to present this educational knowledge to the many students that are yet to begin the process of becoming educated. Education should also be evaluated for efficiency as we have a limited time in which to present to students the educational knowledge we have. These are but three examples of what should be evaluated in education.
What can the student do with the knowledge? Knowledge should not remain stagnant as it settles in the student's minds, but rather, the student should be capable of applying their knowledge on a daily basis. They should demonstrate that they know what they are doing with the knowledge, and how that can help both them and us make improvements to our day to day life. By allowing students to demonstrate that they can apply the knowledge learned in schools, we, as educators, are also given the opportunity to evaluate the performance of the student's education. One example of evaluation can be done by presenting a problem to the students, and look at the solutions that the students demonstrate, then evaluate the application of knowledge the students apply to the solutions they present for the problems they have been presented with.
Education needs evaluation to ensure that the flow of information in educational knowledge is allowed to flow like rivers through valleys as our students do when they pass to class on the hallways of our schools. This flow of information should also be evaluated to ensure that it can continuously cycle from teachers, to students, to the community, to the schools, and back to those whose duty is to present this educational knowledge to the many students that are yet to begin the process of becoming educated. Education should also be evaluated for efficiency as we have a limited time in which to present to students the educational knowledge we have. These are but three examples of what should be evaluated in education.
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