Students’ perceptions of the assessment in physics lessons

Abstract Assessment plays an important role in teaching and learning. Within the assessment, teachers and students interact to obtain the information needed to improve learning. As the learning can be supported by the quality assessment, the survey was conducted at the lower and upper-secondary schools to investigate the assessment and feedback students were given. The aim of the study was to find out how the students perceived the obtained assessment. The paper describes the results of the preliminary survey on the students’ perceptions of the assessment in physics lessons and compared them to the teachers’ ideas about how the students experience the assessment.