RELEVANCE OF ASSESSMENT TO PARENTS

Assessment is a tool used by the teachers, administrators, and many more to know, if the given task or lesson had been understood. Assessment in relation to education, that assessment is a wide variety of methods used by educators to document, evaluate and measure the academic readiness, learning progress and skill acquisition of students in school.

Assessment helps the teacher in determining students or learners’ strengths and weaknesses to help the teachers in making their teaching strategy suitable for the learning needs of the learners. It also helps the teacher to deal with children’s need by having a collaborative interaction, between the teacher and the learner’s parents. This will serve as an assessment tool to monitor the learner’s behaviors and activities in their own home. The parents will help the teacher in monitoring their children’s learning behavior whenever the learner is at home, and the teacher will monitor the learner’s progress when he/she is inside of the classroom. However, the teacher will have a discussion on the learner’s parents regarding to the learner’s performance, achievements and difficulties on their lesson so that the learner’s parents will know the current standing of their children’s learning progression. Assessment also, promotes the parent and children interaction to improve the learner’s awareness that the teacher is not the only one who is watching for his/her academic progression. So the learner will going to study well to improve his/her performance o have a good intervention a home.

Parents play a vial role in assessing learner’s performance, because having parents to monitor their children’s performance in their home will help teacher determined the proper teaching strategies to be used for the students to acquire knowledge in easy way. In conclusion, having parents as a partner of the teacher o determine the learners problems, will make the learning process more easy its because uses strategies that doesn’t fit to the learner’s attitude in learning so he acquisition of knowledge about the lesson is hard. So if the teacher has the parents as a partner the learning process will be easier, because the teacher may now use strategies that best fit to the learning process needed by the learner to understand the lesson easily.