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Types of Instructional Assessments & Their Purposes (References…

- - - - Purpose: To discover the exact error or misunderstanding the student is having and remedy this.
        
        Example: Close Reading Test.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Fairly simple and easy to create and administer.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Only assesses a couple specific things.
  - - - Purpose: To practice skills and identify and correct procedural errors.
        
        Example: Entry and exit tickets.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Can be quick and provide immediate feedback.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Not comprehensive (all encompassing).
  - - - Purpose: To build metacognitive strategies so that a student will be able to self-correct.
        
        Example: Analysis of their essay.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Encourages students to take responsibility for their work quality.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Students can overestimate their performance if motivated to do so.
  - - - Purpose: To build metacognitive strategies and learn strategies and ideas from their peers.
        
        Example: Marking their peer’s work.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Can help save the teacher valuable time marking assessments.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Usually requires creation and use of a rubric.
        
        Can occasionally be an empty exercise.
- - - - Purpose: To assign a final grade to the student.
        
        Example: End of term tests.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Usually simple and easy to create, administer and mark.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Only show the knowledge acquisition of a student at a moment in time.
  - - - Purpose: Students cannot advance unless they learn the requisite knowledge and skills.
        
        Example: Project to create a volcano.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Students are more easily graded on specific learning standards.
        
        Cumulative learning.
        
        More varied learning.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Cumulative learning, i.e. Extensive to mark.
        
        Time-consuming.
  - - - Purpose: To grant or deny students a diploma or certification. To allow or deny students access to the next level of education or employment.
        
        Example: Ministry of Public Education’s
        [Ministerio de Educación Publica “MEP”]
        Prueba de Bachillerato
        [Secondary Education Completion Test “SECT”]
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Simpler than performance-based or portfolio.
        
        A very myopic view of a student’s abilities and knowledge.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Creates a lot of stress in students, teachers and institutions.
        
        Requires test-taking skill.
  - - - Purpose: “To provide a richer, deeper, and more accurate picture of what students have learned and are able to do than more traditional measures.” (Source: Glossary of Education Reform)
        
        Example: Art projects.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Cumulative learning.
        
        More varied learning.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Cumulative learning, i.e. Extensive to mark.
        
        Time-consuming.
  - - - Purpose: To develop the skills students will need in university and employment. To demonstrate to students the relevance of the knowledge and skills they are learning in school.
        
        Example: Drawing and building a miniature house in Algebra.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Mastery of skills is obtained.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Can be difficult to create and administer.
        
        Requires a lot of imagination by the teacher.
        
        Time-consuming.
  - - - Purpose: A single exercise, assignment or project that integrates all or most aspects of learning standards into a single product that illustrates that acquisition of learning has occurred.
        
        Example: Produce a clay ornament independently (Art).
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Easier to evaluate by an independent party than portfolios or project-based assessments.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Attention must be paid to academic rigor in projects.
  - - - Purpose: To impart learning.
        
        Example: Teach the class introduction to algebra as a revision lesson.
        
        :check: Advantages
        
        Teaching is not only one of the best ways to demonstrate mastery, it in and of itself encourages mastery. (1) The process of explaining to others helps make new connections in the brain and reinforce existing connections. (2) Furthermore, teaching also involves the pre-teaching preparation process which demands: planning, synthesizing of information, analyzing content to determine which points are most important and must be highlighted, and finding examples to illustrate points.
        
        Using teaching as a form of assessment for students can be made even more academically rigorous if the post-teaching step of reflection is included.
        
        :green_cross: Disadvantages
        
        Requires teacher to cede lesson time to students.