ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING IN PRIMARY EDUCATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The purpose of assessment in primary school is to provide information on the performance of a child at a point in time over the school year. Assessment gives teachers a better awareness of what pupils know and understand. It is important to know what their learning experiences will enable them to do and what their skills and personal capabilities are. This paper observed that assessment of pupils’ ability in the modern time has been focusing on cognitive ability leaving out other two domains, affective and psychomotor unattended to. It explores the reasons why assessment for learning in primary school is imperative for achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. The paper concluded that the educational process should be tailored towards achieving desirable changes in cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain. It therefore recommended that teachers should develop and use assessment measures that are appropriate to the level of children in their respectful schools and classes such that every individual is sufficiently equipped to contribute his or her quotas to overall national development.