Title: Assessment and Democracy
Country: Armenia
Authors: Silva Petrosyan
CategoryTheoretical/Conceptual/Propositional Studies
Date of Publication: 2006
Keywords: assessment, democracy, teacher roles
Resource Language(s): Armenian
Pages: 8
Level of Education: High School
Publisher: National Institute of Education
Access: Originally published in Man and Society, a social studies journal.  Order this document directly from the National Institute of Education at 67 Tigran Mets Ave., Yerevan 0005, Armenia.  Phone: (374.10) 572-100
Abstract: The author starts with the idea that people are evaluators and that many problems occur when people misinterpret data, situations, and events or what people want to communicate to us or others. Democratic education is incomplete without sound, accurate, and valid assessment that identifies and solves learning problems. The teacher not only assesses student performance, but also teaches students how to assess or self-evaluate. Democratic assessment helps students to improve their learning and achieve learning goals. The teacher is the main designer of assessment and should help students to eliminate their fear of failure in the learning process.