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ASSESSMENT, Traditional and alternative, Alternatives in assessment, All…
ASSESSMENT
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Testing
Norm referenced
are designed to give test-takers feedback, usually in form of grades, on specific course or lesson objectives. The distribution of students’ score across a continuum may be a little concern as long as the instrument assesses appropriate objectives. Instrument: Stanfor achievement test.
Criterion referenced
Designed to measure how well the students have mastered a particular area. Tests can generally have an established and passing score that is to say that it measures it in performance compared to an specific standards or criteria.National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Prepared administrative procedures that occur at identifiable times in a curriculum when learners must offer their peak performance
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Assessment
1 Formal 2 Sumative
1 are exercises or procedures specifically designed to tap into a storehouse of skills and knowledge. They are systematic, planned sampling techniques constructed to give teachers and students an appraisal of student achievement. To extend the tennis analogy, formal assessments are the
tournament games that occur periodically in the course of a regimen of practice. An instrument can be periodical oral retellings.
2 is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessments are often high stakes, which means that they have a high point value. Instruments of summative assessments include: a midterm exam. a final project
1 Informal 2 Formative
Formative assessment is about forming the students competence and summative is about to measure what they comprehended. Evaluating in formative assessment is evaluating studentsin the process of forming their competencies and skills with the goal of helping them to continue the growth process
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1 is a way of collecting information about our students’ performance in normal classroom conditions. This is done without establishing test conditions such as in the case of formal assessment. Informal assessment is sometimes referred to as continuous assessment as it is done over a period of time like a term or an academic year. However, formal assessment can also be done
continuously.
Instrument: student's portfolio.
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2 refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course
Instrument: draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a topic.
Performanced- based
is a system of learning and assessment that allows students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a learning environment that embraces their higher-order thinking skills, as well as relating it to real-world situations. Instrument: to act a play about a particular topic. For example: Play the role of French revolution characters.
Typically involves oral production,written production, open-ended responses, integrated performance (across skill
areas), group performance and other interactive tasks.
This kind of assesment is time consuming and expensive but it is worthy since higher content validity is achieved.
It is not completely synonymous with the concept of "Alternative assessment. It is one of the primary traits of many available alernatives in assessment.
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Evaluation
It involves looking at all the factors that influence the learning process such as syllabus objectives, course design, materials, methodology and teacher performance
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