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Michael-Anthony Dobson-Lewis | PEP A Step Up On GSAT
As a teacher for more than 20 years and curriculum, instruction and assessment specialist, I am compelled to add my voice to the ongoing discourse on the Primary Exit Profile (PEP).
PEP is an achievement assessment and, as such, it includes ALL the various methods for determining the extent to which students are achieving the intended learning outcomes (objectives) of instruction based on the curriculum. The Grade Six Assessment Test (GSAT) was an exam that included only ONE form of assessment (traditional assessment).
The shift now with PEP is to move away from lower-order thinking skills to higher-order thinking skills. As such, there is the shift from only traditional assessment to alternative assessment, authentic assessment and performance assessment.
Traditional assessment refers to paper-and-pencil test that includes true-false, multiple-choice, matching, interpretive exercise, shot-answer, restricted-response and extended-response (essay).
Alternative assessment refers to assessments other than the traditional assessment outlined above, and so it would include authentic and performance assessments.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...-pep-step-gsat
As a teacher for more than 20 years and curriculum, instruction and assessment specialist, I am compelled to add my voice to the ongoing discourse on the Primary Exit Profile (PEP).
PEP is an achievement assessment and, as such, it includes ALL the various methods for determining the extent to which students are achieving the intended learning outcomes (objectives) of instruction based on the curriculum. The Grade Six Assessment Test (GSAT) was an exam that included only ONE form of assessment (traditional assessment).
The shift now with PEP is to move away from lower-order thinking skills to higher-order thinking skills. As such, there is the shift from only traditional assessment to alternative assessment, authentic assessment and performance assessment.
Traditional assessment refers to paper-and-pencil test that includes true-false, multiple-choice, matching, interpretive exercise, shot-answer, restricted-response and extended-response (essay).
Alternative assessment refers to assessments other than the traditional assessment outlined above, and so it would include authentic and performance assessments.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...-pep-step-gsat
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