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Section 10.<br />

<strong>Case</strong> 2:<br />

The <strong>Case</strong> <strong>Studies</strong><br />

Georgia<br />

Table 9.<br />

Two Types of Learn<strong>in</strong>g Assessment <strong>in</strong> Georgia<br />

Objectives<br />

What do we assess?<br />

Decision made based<br />

on the assessment<br />

Def<strong>in</strong>ition of the<br />

success / progress<br />

criteria<br />

Means of assessment<br />

Determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g assessment<br />

- Control of the quality of learn<strong>in</strong>g;<br />

- Determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the student achievement<br />

level <strong>in</strong> relation to the objectives def<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

by the National Curriculum<br />

- Determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the level of academic<br />

achievement<br />

Learn<strong>in</strong>g outcome / result<br />

Decision on whether to allow the student<br />

to pass the current step and to move to<br />

the next grade<br />

Based on the extent to which the student<br />

has achieved standard def<strong>in</strong>ed outcomes<br />

1-10 grad<strong>in</strong>g scale<br />

Develop<strong>in</strong>g assessment<br />

- Improvement of the quality of learn<strong>in</strong>g;<br />

- Support for the development of the student<br />

Learn<strong>in</strong>g process<br />

- Selection of a different activity for support<strong>in</strong>g<br />

student advancement<br />

- Chang<strong>in</strong>g the teach<strong>in</strong>g strategy<br />

- Provid<strong>in</strong>g the student with advise on ways<br />

of improvement, etc.<br />

Based on the progress made by each student <strong>in</strong><br />

terms of personal development (comparison of<br />

pre- and post learn<strong>in</strong>g situation)<br />

- Self-evaluation rubric;<br />

- Questionnaires;<br />

- Oral or written comments;<br />

- Description of the level of the skill<br />

development<br />

Table 9 above 16 describes <strong>in</strong> more details the two types<br />

of learn<strong>in</strong>g assessment.<br />

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Extracted and translated from National Curriculum 2011-2016 (p.14)<br />

http://www.ncac.ge/<strong>in</strong>dex.php?m=854&lng=geo<br />

<strong>Disaster</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> <strong>Reduction</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>Curricula</strong>: <strong>Case</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> from Thirty Countries

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