What to Evaluate in Education

Evaluate Student Knowledge

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

Education must be evaluated.  We need to evaluate education.  It is necessary for the betterment of education that it be evaluated on a regular basis.  The need for education evaluation is demonstrated by the students.  Students benefit from having their education evaluated.  Students should be given the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge they have accumulated throughout their learning process so it may be confirmed as true and accurate.

Student Knowledge

What should we evaluate in education?  Primarily, student knowledge.  What the student knows should be evaluated so we may measure the knowledge possessed by the student, and the educational growth they have accomplished.  We must also evaluate what the teacher has presented as knowledge to the students.  In the classroom there is a defined length of time in which the teacher must present the knowledge they are responsible for teaching to the students.  Evaluating what a student knows and what the teacher has presented as  knowledge can then allow us to measure and compare how both factors are related.

As we close this school year, we are once again, reminded of the importance of evaluating education.  We need to measure student knowledge, compare that knowledge to the instruction given by the teacher, and analyze the level of knowledge between the two.  We all benefit from education evaluation, and our student will benefit greatly not just by gaining and growing in  knowledge, but in being reassured by formal confirmation, that their knowledge is both accurate an truthful.

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Evaluating Education

Why we need to Evaluate Education

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

FIVE REASONS WHY WE NEED TO EVALUATE EDUCATION.

1) Students

Education evaluation allows students to demonstrate what they have learned.  It is necessary to evaluate what students have learned, in order to confirm to them, that have understood what they learned, and can accurately recall the information they have been instructed on.  Students must be evaluated for their own educational benefit, to build their educational confidence, and to repair educational misunderstandings.

2) Teachers

Education evaluation allows teachers to know the learning comprehension of their students.  It is necessary for teachers to know the learning comprehension of students.  Knowing this will allow teachers to become better educators.  Teachers can implement the information collected through student evaluation in their lesson development, so they may become better educators who are efficient and can reach each student in their classrooms.

3) Administrators

Education evaluation allows administrators to compare student comprehension vs. teacher instruction.  Student comprehension should be directly related to teacher instruction.  Administrators can use the data collected through education evaluation to make sure that both students and teachers are performing above and beyond the established benchmarks of acceptable success.

4) Parents

Education evaluation allows parents to know student comprehension, teacher instruction, and school administration.  Parents should have information available to them which helps them understand how individual students and classmates are learning and growing, the level and quality of the instruction being provided to students by their teachers, and the manner in which schools are being administrated in order for education to successfully take place.

5) Community

Education evaluation allows the community to know that students are being prepared for the future.  In time, the students will become functional members of the community and will have to face the challenges that they will be presented with.  The better educated our communities are, will allow us to make the best possible decisions to improve our way of life, and do good for future generations to develop.

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