CHAPTER 1

• Several students have a negative attitude toward assessment
• Your task as a teacher


  To make assessment exciting for your students
• Diagnostic Assessment


  1. Pre-assessment

  2. Determine what the students already know or don't know before instruction

  3. Result will serve as a guide and a basis for comparison
• Formative Assessment


  1. Administered during instruction (formative process)

  2. Assessment "for" learning

  3. Means of monitoring progress
• Summative Assessment


  1. Administered at the end

  2. Assessment "of" learning

  3. Means of monitoring progress
• Traditional Assessment


  • Paper-and-pencil test
  • Selected-response type
  • Constructed-response type
• Selected-Response Type


  • Multiple Choice
  • Matching Type
• Constructed-Response Type


  • Short Answer
  • Essay
  • Problem-Solving
• Authentic Assessment


  • Performance assessment
  • Non-traditional assessment
  • Alternative assessment
• Criterion-Referenced Assessment


  Student versus standard
• Norm-Referenced Assessment


  Student versus student
• Contextualized Assessment


  • Real life task
  • HOTS
• Decontextualized Assessment


  Declarative or procedural knowledge in artificial situations
• Characteristics of High Quality Assessments

  • Quality assessments are in accordance with contemporary view of active learning and motivation
  • Assessment of high quality is valid
  • Assessment of high quality is reliable
  • Assessment of high quality is fair
• Current Trends in Assessment

  • Using at least some performance-based assessment
  • Examining higher-level cognitive skills and emphasizing integrated rather than isolated skills
  • Using multiple assessment methods
  • Having high performance standards
  • Involving students in all aspects of assessment
  • Making standards and criteria public rather than private and secretive
  • Using computers as part of assessment