The Assessment Process: A Multi-Level Model for Configuring and Analyzing Assessment Practices

Abstract

The school assessment process can be analysed and constructed by operating at different interconnected levels: the underlying assessment approach, the assessment program, assessment situations, and related activities. Integrated analysis and design of the different levels allow for a full understanding of assessment in its pedagogical dimension of regulating learning, reducing the risk of fragmented approaches. An assessment program takes shape by considering the dynamic adaptation to students' needs, the multidimensionality of considered contents, and the relative transferability of skills through authentic activities. This program aims to identify guidance levels in teacher training to lead the educational community toward non-episodic but radical and lasting changes, supporting the overcoming of merely test-centric logics in favour of an assessment that accompanies the teaching-learning process at all its stages.

Keywords

• Assessment design
• Assessment process
• Assessment approach
• Assessment practices