Types of Assessments

Which type of assessment evaluates a student's current level of knowledge and can indicate misconceptions and knowledge gaps?

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Diagnostic

Which assessment type is designed to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional period?

• Diagnostic

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment provides feedback for teachers and students to make learning decisions during the course.

• True

• False

Fill in the blank: ________ assessment summarizes student learning and is designed to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional period.

• Summative

• Formative

• Diagnostic

• Interim

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Diagnostic assessment?

• A) Indicates strengths and weaknesses

• B) Summarizes student learning

• C) Can indicate misconceptions and knowledge gaps

Fill in the blank: Pre-Test, Surveys, and Running Record are examples of ________ assessment.

• Diagnostic

• Formative

• Summative

• Norm-referenced

Which assessment type obtains, monitors, and interprets student growth?

• Diagnostic

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment

What is a diagnostic assessment?

• Checking what you have before starting (student’s prior knowledge and skills)

• Testing after learning

• Grading assignments

• Giving homework

What does the statement 'When the cook tastes the soup, that's formative assessment' mean?

• The cook is serving the soup to others

• The cook is checking the soup to improve it

• The cook is throwing away the soup

• The cook is ignoring the soup

Breaking apart numbers helps when subtracting 532 - 298 because it:

• makes the subtraction easier by simplifying the numbers

• makes the numbers larger and more difficult to subtract

• removes the need to subtract at all

• changes the answer to a different number