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What is an Assessment?
Assessment is a systematic process of gathering information about what a student knows, is able to do, and is learning to do. Assessment information provides the foundation for decision-making and planning for instruction and learning. Assessment is an integral part of classroom instruction that enhances, empowers, and celebrates student learning.
Why We Need Assessments?
The primary purpose of assessment is to promote learning. Assessment provides evidence of how learners are progressing according to defined standards or instructional objectives throughout the period of learning as well as achievement at the end of the learning period. It also provides information about the teacher's effectiveness.
What is "Assessment for Learning"?
Assessment for Learning is the process of seeking and interpreting for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how to get there.
Key Research Findings
Strong research indicates that improving learning through assessment for learning depends on:
- Active involvement of students in their own learning
- Provision of effective feedback to students
- Adjusting teaching to take account of assessment results
- Recognising the profound influence of assessment on motivation and self-esteem
- The need for students to assess themselves and understand how to improve
Assessment for Learning vs Assessment of Learning
In assessment for learning, emphasis shifts from summative to formative assessment. Summative assessment refers to strategies designed to confirm what students know, demonstrate whether or not they have met curriculum outcomes or the goals of their individualised programmes, or to certify proficiency and make decisions about students' future programme or placements.
Unlike summative assessment (assessment of learning) which is typically carried out at the end of a unit, course, grade, programme, term, or semester, assessment for learning happens during the teaching and learning process and takes various forms including student-teacher interaction through questioning, role playing, aligning instructions, identifying students' learning needs, selecting and adapting learning materials, and many more.
Impact on Students
Assessment for learning makes obvious to students what they are to learn, what is expected of them, and provides advice on how to improve their work. The effect is that students keep learning and remain confident that they can continue to learn at productive levels if they keep trying, rather than giving up in frustration or hopelessness.
What are the Benefits of Assignments?
There are potential benefits to conducting assessment properly that could enhance the learning experience. These benefits include communication, engagement, ownership, value, and reflection.
Communication
The communication bridge facilitates the learning process. Research shows that a good assessment tool provides teachers with an easy way to connect with individual students through prompts, feedback, reminders, and knowledge of results. Creating this communication bridge highlights the original purpose of assessment: providing students with important information on their learning progress.
Engagement
Engagement refers to the "student's willingness, need, desire, and compulsion to participate in, and be successful in, the learning process." Appropriate assessment tools offer students the chance to self-assess and play into their natural curiosity about themselves. A developmentally appropriate assessment can tap into this curiosity and engage students in the lesson.
Ownership
Students given the responsibility of tracking their own learning progress through self-assessment, peer assessment, or other forms of evaluation are investing themselves in the teaching and learning process. This promotes student ownership of the lesson and minimizes the idea that learning is solely the teacher's responsibility.
Value
Fair, meaningful assessments help show students the importance of learning and contribute to the perceived positive value of participating in education.
Reflection
Assessment should be seen as the enhancement of learning, rather than simply the documentation of learning. Teachers use assessment to improve their teaching practices and curriculum, while students benefit from assessments that help them truly reflect on what they are learning.
Major Components of Exam Genius Assessment Platform
Content Management System
Features a user-friendly web interface with embedded complex algorithms to ensure no duplicated content is fed into the system. It's enriched with a Quality Assurance process to make sure only quality-assured content is visible to students.
Interactive Teacher Cockpit
Teachers play a vital role in the teaching-learning process. Our Interactive Teacher Cockpit enables teachers to understand students and provide a conducive environment for engagement. It helps teachers understand the strengths and weaknesses of their students and adapt teaching accordingly.
School Administration Cockpit
Our full-suite education system (powered by Big Data analysis) is exclusively designed to empower management and educators with essential insights:
- Analytics about education institutes with drill-down capability to student level
- Actual status of different subjects, modules, and sub-modules
- Evaluation of teachers' success in delivering lectures
- In-depth analysis of subject areas where students struggle
- Psychology, health, physical fitness, and learning abilities of each student
- Relationship analysis between learning ability and psychological/physical factors
- Measuring learning outcomes after each lecture
- Formative and summative assessments
Parent Dashboard
Most parents don't know what their child is good at, not good at, and where they lack confidence in detail. Empowering parents with accurate information on their children's progress is vital. This empowerment helps parents guide their children in the correct direction with the right information at the right time.
Student Dashboard
The Student Dashboard is where students interact with the system, order formative assessments in different subject areas, view history, learn through quick notes, and engage with teachers and peers.
What are the Underlying Techniques We Use?
In-depth Analysis of Each Student
Our Reinforcement learning algorithms (Deep learning) together with Big Data analysis identify each student's learning abilities across the syllabus in depth. The system analyzes studying behaviors, study patterns, peaks and drops, performance levels at different times of day, psychology, physical fitness levels, and health conditions as key inputs for AI-driven guidance.
The system is designed to groom individuals step by step while ensuring already implanted knowledge is retained and readily available through re-polishing at right intervals using spaced repetition techniques backed by AI algorithms.
Distributed Practice Through Spaced Repetition
Students often find themselves learning information in a limited time span, sometimes cramming overnight before tests. Psychological studies show this technique is not effective for long-term retention.
The benefit of spaced repetition has been recognized for over a century, with Ebbinghaus (1885) making the first systematic investigation of memory, developing a 'forgetting curve'. This shows exponential decay of information from memory when no effort is made to revisit that information.

Enhanced Learning Through Instant Feedback
Feedback is considered one of the most important aspects of learning. Immediate feedback and the possibility to correct errors at the moment is very effective when we don't have a teacher or tutor present. It promotes autonomy and self-learning, allowing students to manage and correct the moment a doubt arises, making the pace of learning more adaptable to each individual.
Benefits of Immediate Feedback
Immediate feedback has the potential to help academic performance, promote motivation, self-regulation, and self-efficiency, allowing students to reduce the distance between their current performance and desired performance.