POLICY GUIDELINES ON

CLASSROOM
ASSESSMENT FOR THE
K TO 12 BASIC
EDUCATION PROGRAM

May 2015

DepEd ORDER No. 8 s.

2015

Policy Guidelines on
Classroom Assessment
for the K to 12 Basic
Education Program.

2. Classroom Assessment is an
integral part of curriculum
implementation.
3. Effective School Year 20152016, The Policy Guidelines shall
be implemented in public
elementary and secondary schools
nationwide.

Policy Guidelines on Classroom

Assessment for the K to 12 Basic
Education Program (BEP)
I. Theoretical Basis

V. What is the Grading

System?

II. What is Classroom

Assessment?

VI. How are Core Values

reflected in the Report Card?

III. What is Assessed in the

Classroom?

VII. How is Attendance

reported?

IV. How are Learners Assessed

in the Classroom?

VIII. To whom is classroom

assessment reported?

I. Theoretical Basis

I. Theoretical
Basis

Classroom Asessment
is a joint process that involves
both teachers and learners.
It is integral part of teaching and
learning.
Must recognize the diversity of
learners inside the classroom.
Recognition and deliberate
consideration of the learners zone
of proximal development
(Vygotsky 1978).

Classroom Asessment
Appropriate assessment is committed
to ensure learners success in moving
from guided to independent display
of knowledge, understanding, and
skills, and to enable them to transfer
this successfully in future situations.
Assessment facilitates the
development of learners higher-order
thinking skills and 21st-century skills.

Classroom Asessment
Acknowledges the unity of
instruction and assessment.
Assessment is part f day-to-day
lessons and extends the day-today classroom activities that are
already in place in the K to
12curriculum.

II. What is Classroom

Assessment?

II. What is
Classroom
Assessment?

Assessmen
t
Is a process that is used to keep
track of learners progress in
relation to learning standards
and the in the development of
21st-century skills;
to promote self-reflection and
personal accountability among
students about their own
learning

Assessmen
t
And to provide bases for the
profiling of student performance
on the learning competencies
and standards of the curriculum.
Various kinds of assessments
shall be used appropriately for
different learners who come
from diverse contexts, such as
cultural background and life
experiences.

Classroom
Assessment
Is an ongoing process of
identifying, gathering, organizing
and interpreting quantitative and
qualitative
information
about
what learners know and can do.

Classroom
Assessment

Formativ
e
Assessm
ent

Summati
ve
Assessm
ent

III. What is Assessed in the

Classroom?

III. What is
Assessed in the
Classroom?

Assessment in the classroom is

aimed at helping students perform
well in relation to the learning
standards.
Learning
Standards

Content
Standards

Performanc
e
Standards

Learning
Competenc
ies

IV. How are Learners Assessed

in the Classroom?

IV. How are Learners

Assessed in the
Classroom?

V. What is the Grading

System?

V. What is the
Grading
System?

V. What is the Grading

System?

A. How is learner progress

recorded and computed?

VI. How are Core Values

reflected in the Report Card?

VI. How are Core Values

reflected in the Report
Card?

VII. How is Attendance

reported?

VII. How is
Attendance
reported?

VIII. To whom is classroom

assessment reported?

VIII. To whom is
classroom
assessment
reported?

Appendices

Thank You!