Good morning everybody! :) Today's topic will be about essay, which is another form of assessment that teachers used in today's classroom. Essays can be long or short, depending on the questions and it is usually about the writer's own argument about the questions. Erm, in Malaysia's education system, there will always be essays questions during the examinations and this is unavoidable. No matter how much you hate to do essay questions, you still have to do it. The reason i chose this topic is because I have experienced this kind of assessment and the feedback i got from this kind of assessment is a wonderful one.
The purpose of essay as an assessment is to test the student's writing skills, their on-the-spot reaction when answering, their creativity and also their knowledge. Through essay writing, a teacher can spot if the students read extra information or not. An argumentative type essays requires the student to support their own stand and if the student read a lot materials, argumentative essays are easy to him because he is able to support his argument with relevant proofs and data. This type of assessment is easy, where the teachers need to read the students' works and give appropriate marks based on their works. There will be rubrics for the assessment and teachers may or may not follow the rubrics as different students will produce different essays and not all their essays fit the rubrics. As long as the teacher think their essays fits to what the question wants, then the students will gain appropriate marks.
My opinion about this type of assessment is that teachers tend to be bias when it comes to marking the paper. If the teacher favors this student, the students work will gain slightly higher marks if compare to the other students' works. In order to overcome this issue, the teacher can ask the students to write down their ID number on their question paper. Like this, the teacher will not know whose paper is she marking and she will be able to mark the papers fairly. Also, do not allow the subject teacher to go into the classroom during the examination because some teachers tend to give hints or tell the students if they answer the questions right or wrong.
I think that is all from me for this post and the next post will be the conclusion about the assessment. Ciao! :)
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