Abstract
The main prerequisites for ensuring the quality of education and the teaching process are the qualitative features of the assessment process and its efficiency. In order to show the benefits, role and importance of assessment characteristics that have been significantly neglected or completely absent in the formal education system, this paper presents an overview of alternative schools in which the evaluation and assessment process is based on such qualitative approaches. The paper presents the general characteristics of the education activities of the Waldorf School, Montessori School and Freinet’s School, with particular reference to the assessment and evaluation process. Based on the assessment characteristics in the abovementioned alternative schools, it can be concluded that this process is characterized by: a holistic approach; high level of individualization; motivation in place of categorization; collaboration and shared responsibility of teachers, students and parents; timely feedback as the foundation for self-evaluation and the absence of repressive effect of evaluation. The identified characteristics provide an opportunity to create innovative assessment techniques and mechanisms that can ensure the quality and efficiency of the assessment process in the formal education system and serve as the foundation for creating individualized assessment procedures which the teachers-practitioners can use to significantly improve their teaching skills and use assessment more as a tool for student development.
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