Learning Assessment Questions: What Do Students Say?
- 1 National Teaching University, Ngaliema, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Abstract
Pedagogical assessment is an integral part of the learning process and skill development. Its purpose is to facilitate learning and provide information on the status of one or more skill development projects. Assessing students’ learning means evaluating the learning process and not just the outcome of that learning <a href="#ref7">(Kisuku, 2023)</a>. This study aimed to analyze the questions asked by teachers to assess students. Students from two Catholic secondary schools and two public secondary schools in the commune of Lemba made this assessment. One hundred sixty students (N = 160) agreed to answer the survey questions. We composed the survey questions based on published research on assessments. The results of this study highlight several important observations that are critical to reassuring us that students are not suffering from poor assessment question compositions. Students answered the survey questions inconsistently. This indicates a lack of communication between teachers and students regarding assessment questions. Recommendations were proposed.
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