Where to Evaluate Education

A Place for Education Evaluation

Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas

Where to Evaluate Education

The location of the place where education evaluation takes place has meaningful significance and must be created for such purpose. The significance of the educational evaluation place expands beyond its physical dimensions.  It signifies a secure, positive, environment where students can perform so they may be evaluated on the learning they have done.  This place should be created as a place where the student feels safe, secure, and confident, and the student knows that fair and equal conditions exist as they are being evaluated on their learning.

Place

Schools, Classrooms, Evaluation Centers&Rooms and many other locations can be places where education evaluation takes place.  These places must have been created as locations where students can demonstrate that they have successfully learn the material they are being evaluated in.  Some variables to consider when creating these places are physical aspects like lighting, temperature, sound, smell, and other aspects that up to a certain point, and with the proper support, can be controlled and provided to satisfy the environmental needs required for students to perform at their best possible educational level.

A Place Where to Evaluate Education

There is a correlation that exits between the place where students are evaluated and the results that are achieved.  In an adverse, challenging, uncomfortable place, while a number of students, who are able to make the needed adaptive adjustments, would be able to achieve some success, to most students, just being placed in such place could cause them to fail without taking one step that allows for them to be evaluated.

The objective a place, where education is to be evaluated, is to provide the best, most comfortable accommodation for educational evaluation to take place.  We must do our best to ensure that our students have access to places where their education is evaluated on how they apply it to a measuring challenge, with fair and equal settings, so they may perform to the highest ability possible.  We should also expect great results from students who are evaluated in places who can provide such supportive, fair, and comfortable places where education can be evaluated.

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What to Evaluate in Education (Part 2)

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.

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