DEVELOPING A COMPETENT CLASSROOM ASSESSOR: A CASE STUDY OF AN EXCELLENT PRINCIPAL

Author Name: Kalai Selvan Arumugham, Phd

Volume/Issue: 01/12

Country: Malaysia

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-92273276/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. National Institute of Educational Management and Leadership Ministry of Education, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Classroom assessment is a current trend of assessment. It helps the teachers to understand students learning process. In order to make the classroom assessment has its high reliability and validity, the classroom assessor must be competent. For this development process, school leader needs to play a crucial role. This study aimed to investigate on how an excellent principal develop their teachers to be a competent classroom assessor. Data were collected via semi structured interview and through analyzing documents related to the teacher’s development program and analyzed thematically. The data collected can capture the stages taken by this excellent principal to develop teachers in order to make them to become competent. There are four main stages done by this principal to make sure all the teachers are managed to conduct classroom assessment. The four stages are, pre observation, gap analysis, instructional coaching and post observation. Previously all these stages are well explained in conducting instructional program, but through this study, researcher managed to identify all these stages specifically in developing classroom assessor. Since this study is only focusing on a task done by one excellent principal, it is suggested that in future research should be conducted in teacher’s perspective. It will give more clearer picture on how classroom assessment process going on in Malaysian context.

Key words: COMPETENT,ASSESSOR,CASE STUDY