ASSESSMENT PURPOSES AND TYPES

Selection Purpose

Diagnosis Purpose

Research Purpose

Achievement Assessment

Screening Assessment

Program Evaluation Purpose

Progress or achievement purpose

Placement

Accountability Purpose

Formative Assessment

Prognosis Purpose

Summative Assessment

Informal Assessment

Formal Assessment

Process Assessment

Divergent Assessment

Convergent Assessment

Used by all students and teachers during learning and teaching

To elicit and use evidence of student learning to improve student understanding.

To predict wheter the students will succeed or not in taking our course.

Used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the end of a period.

Is used to enhance decision making, and “examines programs to determine their worth and to make recommendations for programmatic refinement and success”.

Screening is an assessment process that helps teachers identify students who are at risk for not meeting grade-level learning goals.

Used to detect student's problem so that the teacher can give the necessary treatment or remedy.

An intuitive assessment method where teachers do not evaluate student performances on some grade or metrics.

The processes of determine capability of those processes to perform within quality, cost and schedule goals.

A data-driven method of evaluating students, usually with well-defined grading parameters.

Used to collect data

Ask participants to produce multiple ideas in response to specific stimuli.

Refer to assessments which scores are often used to determine the level of instruction for which a student is prepared.

Aims to group students based on certain criteria, homogeneity or heterogeneity.

Used for the purpose of knowing students’ progress during a course

Has only one correct response (per item).

Aims to group students, and is conducted at the beginning of a program.

To know the number or percentage of something.