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**Assessment of learning :** As part of the overall evaluation process, we need specifically to find out if the learners are actually learning (changing their behaviour) as a result of the process. This will show us whether the teaching process has been effective or not, which ultimately is the most important issue. Assessment is a means of finding out what learning is taking place. As well as specific knowledge and skills, we might also like to measure other changes in behaviour related to ‘personality’, social skills, interests, learning styles, etc. In our research we resorted to these two websites as being the best to illustrate what assessment of learning is. **ASSESSMENT //OF // LEARNING**

1- breaking the confusion between assessment of learning and the grading systme

**A** s the process of assessment is already a debatable one, a lot of confusion is usually raised around causing misunderstanding and misuse of the process in an affective way. Therefore, this website is concerned one of the best sites illustrating this matter. It's mainly concerned with breaking the confusion between " //assessment of learning// " as a stage of the assessment process and the simple grading system. Moreover, the website provides us with some important points of //assessment of learning// such as :-
 * An illustrated explanation of the role of assessment of learning in the assessment process.
 * Gradeing vs. assessment of learning outcomes.
 * How effectively can grades can be a major source of data for assessment.
 * separate grades or subscores would have to be computed for the major components of knowledge and skills so that evidence of students’ specific areas of strength and weakness could be identified.
 * The role of the instructor or the teacher after grading is considered a source of assessment.
 * The different methods of assessment, and how each of them may assess multiple skills and abilities and may overlap with each other in terms of what knowledge and skills they assess.
 * Examples of how assessment could be used to identify the points of strength and weakness.
 * it has different links / tabs to show the difference between assessment of, for and as learning
 * Links to very important concepts such as " //**assessment triangle**// " which shows how does the process of assemssent goes on and how it works in circular way that each item is completing the other.

2- assessment of learning vs. summative assessment

**S** ummative assessment has been seen by some to be a synonymous of assessment of learning. both of them are concerned mainly with the formal testing of what has been learned in order to produce marks or grades which may be used for reports of various types. This site is mainly concerned with a simple introduction and illustration of the factors of " assessment of learning " and how is works as a summative assessment. It contains:-
 * Key Elements of Summative Assessment.
 * one very important point that has been raised in this website too, is how Summative assessment can have a negative impact on pupils’ motivation.
 * Since motivation is an important factor mentioned in this website, the site has provided the learner with the "Effects on motivation" in points
 * As teachers, we are always looking for the relationship between these kinds of assessment and how do they serve the syllabus and the curriculum which is also illustrated in the website.
 * what are the main factors that the assessment along with the curriculum in order to get effective assessment; such as :
 * 1) Validity and reliability
 * 2) Positive potential
 * Can summative assessment be exploited for formative purposes? Then the site provide some activities relating to the issue summative assessment.

3- kinds of assessment of learning

**A** s we have understood well from the other sites what and why is assessment of learning ? this site has a very important division of the different kinds of assessment of learning. Summative assessments should be selected, developed, and used on the basis of their ability to assess the mastery of the program outcomes and core abilities and learning that occurred in both General Education and support courses related to the program. this website points out:-
 * 1) the importance of assessment of learning
 * 2) the different types of assessment of learning [ a very important one as teachers need to know what kind of assessment could he use]
 * 3) a rubric in the form of a checklist, pointing the most important factors in creating a evaluating summative assessment tools.

4- teaching and learning is never complete without assessment