Assessment




Validity








Reliability

 






Formative
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Summative
Assessment







Formal Assessment








Informal Assessment






Traditional
Assessment




Alternative Assessment







Norm-referenced Test




Criterion-referenced Test



Self-reference test

Assessment is the process by which educators determine the level of students' learning.


¨        1an indication of how well an assessment actually measures what it is supposed to measure

¨        Validity is achieved if the assessment given to students could determine if they acquired the specific objectives of the course

¨         1an indication of the consistency of scores across evaluators or over time

¨         2Reliability is a necessary but not sufficient condition for validity

¨         There is consistency in the results of the assessment over time

¨         3or diagnostic testing is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment

¨         The teacher gives feedbacks after tests/assessments during the course

¨         4(or summative evaluation) refers to the assessment of the learning and summarizes the development of learners at a particular time.

¨         measures what students learned by the end of a program or grade level; ex. Final exams, board exams

¨         5also known as standardized assessments, measure overall student achievement as compared to other students

¨         Data-driven assessments

¨         Examples: Scholastic aptitude tests

¨         5Informal assessments, also known as criterion-referenced measures or performance-based measures, are driven by content and performance, rather than data

¨         Examples: homeworks, essays

¨         6students choose a response from a given list

¨         Examples: matching type, multiple choice tests, true or false

¨         6Alternative assessment is any type of assessment in which students create a response to a question or task

¨         Performance based

¨         Examples: essays, portfolios, short oral Q & A’s

¨         7identifies whether the test taker performed better or worse than other test takers

¨         Examinee vs. other examinees

¨         8test score identifies the relationship to the subject matter

¨         Examinee vs. the subject

¨         9the practice of assessing present performance against the prior performance of the person being assessed

¨         Also known as Ipsative Assessment

¨         Examinee vs. previous self