Holistic Assessment of Student’s Learning Outcome

Abstract

The use of holistic assessment may have some potential benefits. Academicians need to develop courses in such ways that offer students teaching and learning materials, experiences and tasks that are relevant in the real world.  In addition, holistic assessment help to ensure that curriculum is designed to manifest real world tasks and provide challenging situations that stimulates the students.  Assessing these learning outcomes could be tricky, and no one modality could really capture a learner’s proficiency of learning content. This paper focused on the holistic assessment of student learning outcomes and their implications to curriculum planning. It also proffers some recommendations that could help in enhancing educational service delivery.