Culture Based Assessment

Tinesh Moganakumar
Natasya Najwa
Elvatasha Felicity Gopinning
 What is Culture Based
Assessment..
Assessment is the process of
getting useful information to
make decisions about further
action.
Malaysia stresses the
importance of the
Culture is a set of pattern
understanding, appreciation
experienced by individuals as
and respect for the culture of
a way of acting, feeling, and
various ethnic groups,then
doing things.
culture based assessment
takes centre stage.
Create a school culture and social
structure that encourages
students of various ethnicities
involved in every aspect of school
life.
4 Focus Area
Teachers help students
understand, investigate and
identify cultural responses and
perspectives that affect the
construction of a knowledge.
The process of reducing prejudices
and attitudes of students who are
trapped in their own culture
through teaching approaches and
resources.
Education cultural diversity should
focus on the integration of
content when the teacher uses
input and examples of different
cultures to illustrate certain
concepts.
Assessment performed
by teachers to gather
information to make
decisions with regards
to the cultural diversity
of students.

This is very important

during the preparation and
selection of the instruments
to obtain more accurate
information.

The collection of
data about students
knowledge and skills
using appropriate
assessment is
crucial.
 Concept of Culture based Assessment
Banks and Banks (2004)
Knowledge construction: This belief asserts Equity pedagogy: Teachers must
that all knowledge is created in the minds
of human beings and can, therefore, be modify their methods of instruction
Content integration: Concepts,
challenged. A critical part of multicultural by allowing for students' cultural
values, and materials from a variety
education, the idea that knowledge is a differences before they can
of cultures are included in teaching.
human construct challenges teachers to encourage academic achievement.
alter their own perceptions of the world
before they can teach multiculturally.

Prejudice reduction: Teachers must

Empowering school culture: Schools
work to shift students' prejudices
must identify those aspects of
regarding race and ethnicity. Prejudice
education that hinder learning and then
reduction may also encompass teaching
empower families and students from all
the tolerance of various religions, sexual
backgrounds, so that the full
preferences, and disabilities.
development of students is achieved.

Read more: http://www.healthofchildren.com/M/Multicultural-Education-Curriculum.html#ixzz4eWCrWXIB

Principles of Culture based Assessment
 Principles of Culture based Assessment

Must based on Must based on Fair and Square

how students students Inclusive for all
learn differences No bias
Positive Roles Improve the content
Create experiences Culture, background
 Teachers Roles

Take into account various problem solving skills in evaluating students learning potential

Provide suitable opportunity for the students to improve themselves

Overcome cultural issues in teaching and creating assessment tools

Characteristics of cultural based
assessment
 Formative
assessment

Brainstorm
Assure equal multicultural
CHARACTERISTIC issues and
educational
S IN CULTURE construct a
access and
BASED confident and
opportunity to all
ASSESSMENT knowledgeable
students
self-identity

Culturally
and
linguistically
appropriate,
fair and bias
free
Assure equal educational access and opportunity to all students
-Engages in functional behavioural assessment to understand multicultural learners.

Culturally and linguistically appropriate, fair and bias free

-The use of language in an assessment is very essential to ensure the questions possessed
is comprehensible
-Utilizes non discriminatory assessment to adequately identify, assess, categorized, place
and multicultural learners with disabilities instruct.
Types of cultural based assessment
Types of cultural based assessment..

Daily
observations
of learning
Evaluation of
and social
students
behaviour of
portfolio
students in
classroom
situation.
Projects that
gives
students the
Journal Writing opportunity to
contribute
ideas
according to
their abilities.
 Daily Observations..

Can be carried out using checklist or note taking.

Enables teachers to accurately observe students behaviour in
a meaningful way.
Once teachers can identify the behaviour pattern of their
students, they can formulate projects of classroom activities
which are compatible with the students behaviour patterns.
Portfolio Evaluation

It is a meaningful way for the students, teachers and parents

to do self reflection.
Reflecting on what have they learned, and making future
decisions on what activities to carry out.
Portfolio contains the personal development and growth of
students.
Journal Writing

Enables students to share their knowledge and express their

opinions and ideas.
For instance a literature journal.
Students will write their own critical reflection on the
characters of the journal and identify which character they
can identify with the most.
Gives the teacher an insight into the minds of their students.
 Appropriate Projects

A great opportunity for students to explore and immerse in different

cultures.
For example, creating artefacts, creating poems or constructing their own
stories.
Students can use their own cultural background and learn the cultural
background of their peers from different ethnicities.