Chapter 3: Approaches to assessment
The terms used to describe different types to learner assessment are:
Formative assessment: assist the learning process because providing feedback to the learner, it help to identify strengths and weakness for improve future performance. This occurs during the educational process.
Summative assessment: is used to make decisions for grading or determine readiness for progression. This occurs at the end of an educational activity.
Informal Assessment: it's most often used to provide formative feedback. The judgments are integrated with other tasks.
Formal assessment: occurs when students know that the task that they are doing is for assessment purposes.
Continuous assessment: occurs throughout a learning experience, this provides both students and teachers the information needed to improve teaching and learning in process.
Final assessment: is that which takes place at the end of a learning activity. Typically, final assessment is used for summative decision-making.
Process assessment: this centered on the steps or procedures underlying a particular ability or task. it is most useful when a student is learning a new skill and for providing formative feedback to assist in improving performance.
Product assessment: this centered on evaluating the result or outcome of a process.
Divergent assessments: are those for which a range of answers or solutions might be considered correct.
convergent assessment: has only one correct response.
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