Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Aso Mojtahedi ¹
• shabnam najafi ²
• neda salehi ²
• Enayatollah Zamanpour ³

¹ Allameh Tabatabai University

² Allameh Tabatabaei University

³ Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Teaching and assessment is one of the important element of the educational system and its inseparable part, which is responsible for the continuous guidance of students' learning and is used to achieve educational goals. Teaching and assessment is a composed and Interwoven process, all of its components work in an organized way to achieve a certain goal. Although students are exposed to evaluation in all the years of formal education and this action is done by teachers, little research has been done on the perception and difference of their views about evaluation. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the perception of elementary school students and teachers in Tehran about the concept of "evaluation", seeks a deeper understanding of these two concepts from the point of view of teachers and students and deals with their differences and similarities, for this purpose qualitative method and phenomenological design have been used to analyze the perception of teachers and students. The participants of the current research are all the teachers and students of the elementary school in Tehran in the academic year 1402-1403, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with some of them who were available. In order to analyze the data of the research, the Colaizzi approach was used. Analysis of teacher and student interviews led to the identification and classification of four main themes for teachers and four main themes for students. The results showed that from the point of view of teachers, classroom assessment and evaluation is a tool for improving teaching, increasing learning, classifying students and also a way to respond to families and students. However, students consider classroom assessment and evaluation as a tool to get a degree, verify learning, a way to improve learning and teaching, and sometimes as irrelevant and ineffective.

Keywords

• Perception of grade
• Perception of evaluation
• Assessment
• Phenomenology

Main Subjects

• Preschool and Elementary School Children