Categorizing Assessment Measures
Two schemas:
-Objective/Subjective
-formative/summative
Objective/Subjective:
Objective measures significant advantages in ease of implementation. Multiple choice tests, true-false, matching, machine-scorable questions
Enable a teacher to ascertain specifically which concepts are being mastered
Short-answer/free response
Subjective works well in distance education
term papers, group tasks
Authentic, performance-based, and constructivist assessments
Authentic - tasks that simulate real-world challenges
Performance-based - expecting the learner to perform a skill
Constructivist - learner-centered
Formative/Summative:
purpose - how will the results be used?
Formative - assessment for learning. encourage the use of ongoing tasks to provide feedback to the learner
Summative - outcomes-focused. administrative purposes (assigning grades, reporting success/failure...). Almost always comprehensive - measuring the mastery of a specified body of knowledge or completed curricular unit.