Examination Test or Continued assess Flashcards
There seems to be an increasing trend toward assessing students through exams rather than through continual assessment.
What are the ads & disadv of exams as a form of asessment?
In recent years, the approach of using exams as a tool to assess students has risen in pupularity over the altenrative of continual assessment. This essay will highlight / discuss both the benefits and drawbacks that results from such an approach.
To begin with the pluspoints, a crucial advantage that examinations offer as aform of assessment is that they leave little room for cheating. This is becuase exams are usally undertaken in the presence of invigilators, who are responsible to detect any candiate who break the rules. In contrast, continual assessment incraeses the risk of plagiarism since assignments are often completed through intenret. Besides reducing cheating, exams are also more time-efficient. As they tend to only happen once or twice per year, they free up more time for students to revise and prepare.
Nevertheless, assessing students via exams does present some problems. For instance, some students are extremely intelligent and creative, but when put under pressure their minds can go blank. Considering that exams are situations of intensely high pressure,it is no wonder that even the brightest students sometimes perform poorly. Another significant drawback of this system is the narrow range of information which students are tested on. Unlike with continual assessment, the small window of time in tests limits how many questions can be asked, thus failing to test students knowledge in full.
In conclusion, although formal examinations are beneficial in terms of cutting out cheating and improving efficiency, it is important to consider that they also harm some students’ concentration and are aargualbly not as thorough as continual assessment.
