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Types of assessment - Coggle Diagram
Types of assessment
Definition
Assessment is the ways instructors gather data about their teaching and their students’ learning (Hanna & Dettmer, 2004).
The data provide a picture of a range of activities using different forms of assessment such as: pre-tests, observations, and examinations. Once these data are gathered, you can then evaluate the student’s performance.
Evaluation, therefore, draws on one’s judgment to determine the overall value of an outcome based on the assessment data. It is in the decision-making process then, where we design ways to improve the recognized weaknesses, gaps, or deficiencies.
Assessment measures if and how students are learning and if the teaching methods are effectively relaying the intended messages
Types of assessment
Diagnostic
Diagnostic assessment can help you identify your students’ current knowledge of a subject, their skill sets and capabilities, and to clarify misconceptions before teaching takes place
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Formative
Formative assessment provides feedback and information during the instructional process, while learning is taking place, and while learning is occurring. Formative assessment measures student progress but it can also assess your own progress as an instructor.
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Application:
Monitor student progress
Adjust instruction to maximize student achievement
Provide effective and timely feedback
Reveal students who need remediation
Predict performance on summative assessments
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Summative.
Summative assessment takes place after the learning has been completed and provides information and feedback that sums up the teaching and learning process. This is used with the completion of projects and assignments.
Rubrics, often developed around a set of standards or expectations, can be used for summative assessment.
Rubrics also can help you to be more objective when deriving a final, summative grade by following the same criteria students used to complete the project.
Summative assessment is more product-oriented and assesses the final product, whereas formative assessment focuses on the process toward completing the product. This is the moment where students are allowed to make revisions and can take advantage of the opportunity to improve.
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