SZ6081 Student's Assessment

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jana Kratochvílová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Julie Grombířová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Kratochvílová, Ph.D.
Department of Education – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with a theoretical basis for the assessment and evaluation of pupils' results and their learning process with an emphasis on formative assessment; to understand the advantages and disadvantages of individual forms of assessment and to apply the acquired knowledge in practice in the evaluation of pupils' results and their learning process.
Learning outcomes
Students:
Understand the issues of formulating learning objectives and creating criteria for evaluating the result.
Assess the student's knowledge, analyze it and select adequate goals and criteria for assessment and the type of assessment.
Apply it in their own practice, critically assess the suitability of selected procedures.
In the process of reflection, they consider the impact of the chosen procedure on the student's learning and on the formation of his/her knowledge and seek alternative procedures for further steps in their own teaching.
Syllabus
  • The importance of feedback for the personal development of students.
  • Definition of basic types of assessment, connection of evaluation and assessment to the concept of the school.
  • Formative assessment and personnel conception of the pupil's personality development.
  • Three pillars of formative assessment: work with learning objectives, assessment criteria and descriptive feedback.
  • Diversity of forms of evaluation and their use in practice.
  • Pupils' self-assessment as an essential part of learning supportive assessment.
  • Comprehensive developing assessment: assessment for learning.
Literature
    required literature
  • WILIAM, Dylan and Siobhán LEAHY. Zavádění formativního hodnocení : praktické techniky pro základní a střední školy. Druhé revidované vydání. [Praha]: ve spolupráci s nakladatelstvím Martina Romana a projektem Čtení pomáhá vydala EDUkační LABoratoř, z.s., 2016, xxvi, 243. ISBN 9788090608276. info
  • SLAVÍK, Jan. Hodnocení v současné škole : východiska a nové metody pro praxi. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 1999, 190 s. ISBN 8071782629. info
    recommended literature
  • BROOKHART, Susan M. and Anthony J. NITKO. Educational assessment of students. Eighth edition. NY: Pearson, 2019, xiv, 535. ISBN 9780134807072. info
  • STARÝ, Karel and Veronika LAUFKOVÁ. Formativní hodnocení ve výuce. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2016, 174 stran. ISBN 9788026210016. info
  • KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ, Jana. Systém hodnocení a sebehodnocení žáků, Zkušenosti z České republiky i Evropských škol (System of the pupils evaluation and self-evaluation, Experiences from the Czech Republic and the European Schools). 1st ed. Brno: MSD, 2011, 153 pp. ISBN 978-80-7392-169-9. info
Teaching methods
seminar, discussion, group work, individual work
Assessment methods
1) active participation in the seminar, 2) written preparation - setting goals and criteria for assessment, implementation in own practice, presentation, 3) written self-reflection.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: minimální počet 15 studentů
Teacher's information
  • The course requires active presentation in a group of students.
  • Erasmus student: A student who is awarded an ISP for the Erasmus+ programme studies independently according to the objectives, content and named outcomes in the course syllabus. They work towards completing an assignment. A student who has been awarded an ISP has the right to complete a compulsory or compulsory elective course outside the examination period, during the semester immediately following the semester in which he/she has been in a foreign university or work placement abroad. The student agrees with the teacher on the date of completion of the course.
    • The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
    • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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