Training Kit on Competencies in Educational Assessment
In an era characterised by rapid change, high competitiveness, and a move towards the fourth industrial revolution, and benefiting from it and from the sciences and experimental scientific approaches it has produced, we strive to stand at the forefront of the world's nations, and to have an abundant share of progress and to achieve leadership and distinction, focusing on the nation's foremost asset of young generations, and increasing investment in their education and training to build the future through working to bring about a qualitative shift in education in all its aspects. This is a shift that ensures, with God's grace, a transformation into more advanced and more effective education that meets the requirements of the twenty first century and keeps pace with global developments and the knowledge and technological revolution. Education is the way to build an aware generation capable of representing its own culture first, and of adapting to and interacting with other cultures and what they entail second.
Methods of Assessing the Affective Domain
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The questionnaire:
Some of these are open and some are closed. The open one leaves the student free to answer, while the closed one requires the student to choose from among certain answers.
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The case study:
This relies on gathering complete and sufficient data about a particular student from his birth to the time his case is studied.
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Projective methods:
In these, the learner is placed in a situation in which he provides data that he projects onto something, such as being asked to express his impressions of random shapes that have no meaning in themselves, like the inkblot test.
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Attitude scales:
These include statements revolving around one of the affective aspects, and in front of each statement there are alternatives to choose from expressing a degree of rejection or acceptance, such as (strongly agree - agree - do not know - disagree - strongly disagree).
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The personal interview:
An effective assessment method through which the teacher can learn about the student's tendencies, interests, and social environment, and the reasons for his excellence or underachievement, or the reasons for a deviation in one aspect of his behaviour.
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Observation:
This is monitoring the learner's behaviour in different situations. Actual behaviour is a stronger indicator than the student's statements.
Teachers, educational supervisors, and school assessment staff.