Measurement

Measurement and Evaluation

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Measurement and evaluation: It’s a necessity not a luxury

• Why are we implementing these interventions?

• How can we best position them?

• What results come from them?

Answers the questions

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Defining measurement and evaluation

Reference:

Assessing Learning with Special Needs: 6th Ed, by Terry Overton5

A method to determine a learner’s ability to complete certain tasks

or demonstrate mastery of a skill or knowledge of content. (Class tests)

Test

Assessment

Measurement

Is the process of gathering and organising data for the purpose of

decision making – Promote, Retain, Progress(Tests, exams, observations)

Refers to the alignment of numbers through a set of procedures that obtain numerical descriptions of the degree of progress. (Raw scores, percentile ranks, standard scores, derived scores)

Evaluation

Procedures to determine if subject or intervention met the criteria. It is concerned with making judgements on the worth or value of a performance. Obtaining, analysing and interpreting data to

determine if objective is achieved.

What is available on the Dashboard

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Test A method to determine a learner’s ability to complete certain

tasks or demonstrate mastery of a skill or knowledge of content. (Class tests)

What is available on the Dashboard

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Assessment Is the process of gathering and organising data for the purpose

of decision making – Promote, Retain, Progress(Tests, exams, observations)

What is available on the Dashboard

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Measurement

Refers to the alignment of numbers through a set of procedures that obtain numerical descriptions of the degree of progress. (Raw scores, percentile ranks, standard scores, derived scores)

What is available on the Dashboard

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Evaluation

Procedures to determine if subject or intervention met the criteria. It is concerned with making judgements on the worth or value of a performance. Obtaining, analysing and

interpreting data to determine if objective is achieved.

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Instructions

Activity

Measurement & Evaluation

In the same groups, present back to the larger group insights to • Creative interventions • Data sources • How measurement and evaluation will take place