Evaluation in Education: The Role and Importa...

Evaluation in Education: The Role and Importance of Objectives

Author Name : Dr. S. A. Tidke

ABSTRACT

Fundamentally, Education is meant for the all-round development of pupil’s personality. For checking the achievement of pupils’ progress in various dimensions, teachers need to evaluate them properly. According to Thorndike and Hagen, “Evaluation of pupil progress is a major aspect of the teacher’s job. A good picture of where the pupil is and how he is progressing is fundamental to effective teaching by the teacher and to effective learning by the pupil.”  Hence, it is crystal clear that Evaluation plays vital role in achieving the major aim of Education in a broad perspective. A comprehensible picture of evaluation enables the teacher to understand various interconnected components of teaching learning process. 

Bing the last phase of teaching learning process, evaluation makes the teacher to check how far educational objectives are fulfilled. Therefore, defining teaching objectives is the purpose of evaluation. In other words, objectives form the basis of evaluation process. The entire teaching learning process, learning experiences and teaching learning activities are based on objectives and specifications of a particular content. Hence, objectives play an indispensable role in educational process. To make evaluation process meaningful and ever evolving formation of proper objectives as per their classification is of crucial importance. The present paper reveals ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ aspects of objectives, sources, classification of objectives and specifications of objectives.

Key concepts: aspects of objectives, sources, classification of objectives and specifications of objectives.