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Continuous assessment deals with learning achievement beyond the cognitive domain by embracing assessment of manual skills and dexterity in the psychomotor domain as well as the assessment of interests and attitude in the affective domain. The results from continuous assessment therefore broaden the scope of the assessment of the student’s performance by providing information the augment data from summative evaluation. By their nature, summative assessment tend to have a weakness of concentrating on the cognitive domain and even end up focusing on the recall and comprehension cognitive levels only.
Summative evaluation therefore tends to encourage memorization and regurgitation of facts without taking into account the uniqueness of the individual being tested.
The weakness of summative evaluation gives rise to the need for alternative assessment method to complement summative evaluation. There is need for continuous Assessment approach since it is systematic, objective, comprehensive, cumulative, guidance oriented and carried out by the classroom teachers. Continuous assessment is said to be systematic in the sense that it requires an operational plan, namely the measurement to be made, instrument to use, when administered and keeping of records.
It is comprehensive in that several types of instrument are used thus covering many aspect of the learned behavior.
It is cumulative in that any decision made at any time about any student takes cognizance of the previous decisions made about the student
It is guidance oriented since the information obtained serves as a basis from which further growth and development of the students.
The teacher should administer it since the teacher is the expert in the specific unit being assessed and is the one who is in close contact with the students and therefore provide reliable and valid assessment of the students on a continuous basis.
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