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Advantages and Disadvantages of External Evaluation
Advantages of External Assessment
- External assessment aids in the development of competent individuals via practice.
- It validates the choice to advance them to the next class or offer them a degree or diploma.
- External evaluation is important in establishing a student’s ability before formulating a strategy.
- External evaluation is intended to uncover and locate errors and problems that are frequently overlooked by internal systems.
- An important benefit of an external evaluation is that it allows people to evaluate different situations and settings and express their opinions on the equality of measures.
- It also aids in adhering to good values.
- A team of expert assessors guides you through a methodical examination of how well pupils are performing, giving new perspective and objectivity to the activity.
- Effective learning outcomes are increasingly being used to evaluate educational establishment performance.
- External evaluation offers vital information for determining if the school system is performing well and offering comments for improving student outcomes.
Disadvantages of External Assessment
- Much fewer assessment opportunities: less variety of evaluation; only one test every year
- Removes evaluation altogether from teaching and learning; in stressful situations, pupils may fail to demonstrate true abilities.
- Limits validity by restricting the scope of assessment, such as making it impossible to measure interpersonal skills in an exam setting.
- Even with double marking, examiner assessments can be influenced by a variety of circumstances (task difficulty, topic, degree of interest, weariness, and so on; minimal time for assessor reflection/revision).
- Fairness can only be achieved by treating everyone the same, i.e. assigning the same job to all pupils at the same time.
- The sole feedback is generally a grade after the course; there are no possibilities for contact with the assessor and no opportunity to inquire how to improve.
- Examination is solely summative and serves no educational goal; its impact on teaching and learning may even be harmful; it may encourage teaching to the test and a concentration on exam technique rather than outcomes.
- Teachers have little to no say in how their pupils are assessed and have little opportunity to contribute their skills or understanding of their students; students are viewed as statistics.
- Teachers have no chance to enhance their assessment abilities, and they receive little or no feedback on how to grow as educators.
