Types of Assessments
Assessments Of Learning
Assessments For Learning
Assessment as learning actively involves students in the learning process. It teaches critical thinking skills, problem-solving and encourages students to set achievable goals for themselves and objectively measure their progress.
Summative Assessments
Norm-Referenced Assessments
Criterion-Referenced Assessments
Formative Assessments
Diagnostic Assessments
Self-Assessments
Peer Assessments
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Diagnostic assessments can help to evaluate what students know about a topic. They can be used as a pre-assessment to identify strengths and weaknesses, and as a benchmark to show the growth in students' knowledge and skill.
Formative assessments can be used to assess students' understanding and progress in real-time.
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Evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.
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Quizzes and tests
Entry and Exit tickets
Examples:
Midterm exam
Final project
Paper
Senior recital
This method is used to understand how students’ scores compare to a predefined population with similar experience.
Examples:
The SAT
IQ tests
Tests that are graded on a curve
What is CRA (Criterion-Referenced Assessments)
Examples:
Advanced Placement exams
National Assessment of Educational Progress
Language Test
The value of CRA
Identifies what is valued in a curriculum and ensures that what is measured by assessment is the same as the skills, knowledge and understandings defined by the intended learning outcomes
Provides a shared language between students, teachers, and assessors about assessment
Supports students to develop strong self-evaluation capacity, providing tools for them to review, refine, and improve their own work
Criterion referenced assessment (CRA) is the process of evaluating (and grading) the learning of students against a set of pre-specified qualities or criteria, without reference to the achievement of others (Brown, 1998; Harvey, 2004).
Lets the student follow their learning and take stock as to how they are doing and where they need to ask questions
Student Driven
Students will help eachother find gaps in the knowledge and can also help fill those as a collaborative approach.