Assessment

The main purpose of formative assessment is:

 

• To help teachers and students make decisions about the next steps in instruction.

• To produce scores as part of the final grade for a course.

• T decide which class or course a student should be placed in.

• None of the answers.

Summative assessment is used to:

• Give students feedback so they can improve their performance in future assessments.

• Measure students’ learning achievements typically at the end of a period of instruction.

• Identify learning problems or difficulties in order to guide interventions.

• None of the answers.

Assessment for learning is closest in meaning to:

• Formative assessment.

• Summative assessment.

• Diagnostic assessment.

• Testing itself.

Assessment as learning refers to:

• The use of final tests and exams to measure students’ learning outcomes.

• Increasing students’ ability to be able to use assessment evidence to help them be aware of and manage their own learning.

• Teachers’ use of assessment evidence to adjust their teaching.

• Students' results in testing to be added in reports.

Formative and summative assessment are most relevant to:

 

• Methods of assessment.

• Instruments of assessment.

• Purposes of assessment

• The uses of assessment.