Table 5 Some advantages of educational assessment (extracted from Gipps, 1994).
• | Deals with an individual's achievement relative to himself than to others |
• | Tries to test competence rather than intelligence |
• | Attempts to look for 'best' rather than 'typical' performance |
• | Views assessment from a constructivist perspective, seeking to help rather than sentence the student |
• | Takes place in relatively uncontrolled conditions |
• | Is most effective when rules/regulations that characterise standardised testing are relaxed |