Assessment Reviewer 1st topic

• Diagnostic Assessment


  A form of pre-assessment that allows a teachers to determine individual students' prior knowledge including misconception before instruction
• Formative Assessment


  Assessment that takes place during instruction to provide the teachers with information regarding how well the learning objectives of a given activity are being met
• Summative Assessment


  Assessment used to evaluate students' learning at the end of a defined instructional periods
• Types of Summative Assessments

  • Paper and pencil test
  • Non-paper and pencil test
• Authentic Assessment


  Assessment where the knowledge and skills of the students are assessed in a context that approximates the real world or real life as closely as possible
• Criterion-Referenced Assessment


  Assessment where the students' performance is compared against a criterion of success which is a predetermined standard
• Norm-Referenced Assessment


  Assessment where the students' performance is compared against the performance of other students
• Contextualized Assessment


  Assessment where the focus is on the students' construction of functioning knowledge
• Decontextualized Assessment


  Assessment that does not necessarily have a direct connection to real life context