Assessment
Validity
Reliability
Formative Assessment
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 |