ASSESSMENT FOR ENHANCING CONFIDENCE IN LEARNING

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 ASSESSMENT FOR ENHANCING CONFIDENCE IN LEARNING

Assessment plays a critical role in shaping students' confidence, self-esteem, and motivation

1. Confidence

  • Positive Impact: When assessments are fair, supportive, and focus on growth, students gain confidence in their abilities.
  • Negative Impact: Repeated failure due to biased or inappropriate assessments can lower confidence and create fear of failure.
  • Solution: Use formative assessments and constructive feedback to build a growth mindset.

2. Self-Esteem

  • Positive Impact: If students feel their efforts are valued and recognized, their self-esteem improves.
  • Negative Impact: Harsh grading, standardized tests, or assessments that do not reflect students' strengths can lower self-worth.
  • Solution: Encourage self-reflection and offer multiple ways for students to show their learning.

3. Motivation

  • Intrinsic Motivation: If assessments are meaningful and connected to real-life contexts, students feel motivated to learn.
  • Extrinsic Motivation: Grades and rewards can push students to perform, but excessive pressure may reduce intrinsic motivation.
  • Solution: Use a mix of formative assessments, personalized feedback, and goal-setting to keep students engaged.

A culturally responsive and strength-based assessment approach can enhance all three—helping students believe in themselves and stay motivated to learn.

IPSATIVE ASSESSMENT

1. It is an assessment based on comparison of learner’s current

performance with the learner’s past performance

2. It is an assessment against the student’s own previous standards

3. It can measure how well a particular task has been undertaken

against the student’s average attainment, against their best work

or against their most recent piece of work

4. It measures progress and development

5. Standardized and Criteria referenced assessment can be demotivating for

learners who do not achieve high grades, while Ipsative assessment

emphasizes the progress learners are making and is more

motivating

6. It eliminates the competitive element associated with norm

referenced testing

7. Ipsative assessment feedback helps learners to develop by

highlighting where there is more work to do

8. It can also help high performing students to achieve even more

9. It helps learners self-assess and more self-reliant

10.It’s feedback helps focus on what the learner needs to do next

rather than dwelling on the inadequacies of current

performance.

11. Some students are more likely to act on Ipsative feedback than

highly critical feedback

12. Ipsative assessment helps the students to set their own learning goals

13. It encourages the students to improve their previous scores and

can overcome the peer pressure out of situations

14. Here a weaker performer will be encouraged by seeing

performance improvements over earlier attempts

15. And a stronger performer can be challenged to do better.


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