Why evaluate learning?

  So when pondering the question "Why do teachers evaluate learning" we have to ask ourselves, what would be the benefit of evaluating what we learn. The following blog is a personal opinion regarding the subject. When we talk about evaluation, we have to take into consideration our methods, this means how materials are presented, the types of learning tasks used, and the way we design our courses. In my opinion, we have to be creative since a class requires us as teachers to learn different methods of teaching, the same way the student learns in different ways. It is convenient then, to know different methods of evaluation in a classroom, and as teachers we should know how to evaluate this in a creative way. When we evaluate different aspects of the teaching and learning process it becomes important to make explicit the criteria used in our judgments and to be principled in our evaluations Rea-Dickins, P., & Germaine, K. (1992). Evaluation in the Teaching and Learning ...