23/04/2026
FYI:
REVISED GUIDELINES ON CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT, GRADING SYSTEM, AND AWARDS AND RECOGNITION FOR THE K TO 12 BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
A. Main Purpose of Assessment
Assessment is a core component of teaching and learning. It serves to improve instruction, provide meaningful feedback, and promote continuous growth of learners. It shall be aligned with learnersโ developmental stages to ensure responsiveness to learner needs.
B. Formative Assessment
Formative assessment shall be embedded in daily instruction, making it a natural part of every lesson instead of a separate activity. Results gained from formative assessment shall serve as a learning reference and inform teachers what to teach next, how to teach it, and which learners are in need of additional support. In formative assessment, teachers are to apply the ESRU cycle, which will allow teachers to adjust depending on student response. Developmentally appropriate methods of formative assessments will also be applied per key stage.
C. Summative Assessment
Summative assessment shall evaluate learner achievement at defined points in the curriculum, such as during the end of a term. Different kinds of summative assessments will be done to measure learner progress and provide evidence of learning across knowledge, skills, and values. The types of summative assessments are as follows:
โ Written / Oral Works (WWs) - tasks that are mainly written or prompted through spoken responses such as essays, journals, written reports, structured presentations and more. A minimum of three and a maximum of five shall be administered per term.
โ Product / Performance Tasks (PTs) - tasks that will measure the ability of a learner to apply what they have learned in different contexts such as projects, portfolio, investigations and more. A minimum of two and a maximum of three shall be administered per term.
โ Summative Tests and Term Examination (STs & TE) - Assessments administered at key points of a term covering a set amount of days of instruction per summative test, with the term examination also covering critical points of the summative tests administered prior. STs will be administered twice in a term, the first covering the first 15 instructional days with the second covering the next fifteen.
