CLASS TEACHER’S PERCEPTION OF DESCRIPTIVE EVALUATION
CLASS TEACHER’S PERCEPTION OF DESCRIPTIVE EVALUATION

Summary/Abstract: It is approved since long time ago that the evaluation in the primary schools is significant. During the fast scientific and technological achievements and intense social changes, a tendency of achieving qualitative educational process has appeared which particularly distinguishes the role of evaluation in the entire educational system. The primary school reform in 2003-2004 especially has foreseen numerous changes in every part of school system. One of the innovations was the descriptive evaluation for the first grade students, instead of numerical evaluation. The significance and the necessity for intensive search of descriptive evaluation increase due to that. Considering the fact that we have been using the descriptive evaluation for ten years, it may be assumed that it is time long enough to gain valuable experience of the implementation the one and to be aware of the advantages and disadvantages, as well as to oversee our success in using of the mentioned system of evaluation. The aim of this research is to question closely for the first-grade teachers’ opinion about the descriptive evaluation. The research problem is reduced to asking for the teacher’s opinion about the introduction, objectiveness and influence of descriptive evaluation on the students’ motivation. Data was gathered by conducting the survey. The teachers of the first four grades of primary schools in Kraljevo were questioned, and the sample was made of 151 examinees. The data about the usage of descriptive evaluation in the primary schools shows that the slightly negative attitude prevails among the primary school teachers.

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