Assessment Approaches: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment

1. ASSESSMENT APPROACHES:
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE
ASSESSMENT
BY: MS. KIRAN MALIK

2. QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT
In quantitative assessment a
teacher collect information
about the learning outcomes of
the learner in quantitative form.
It expresses the results in
numbers.

3. CHARACTERISTICS
•It is in the form of numbers.
•It is a traditional approach.
•It is objective by nature.
•It is unbiased.
•It is formal in nature.
•It helps in making inter-individual or intra-
individual comparisons.
•It helps in assigning merits and distinctions.

4. TOOLS USED FOR
QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT
•Oral Tests
•Written Tests
•Practical Tests

5. ADVANTAGES
•It is easy to administer.
•It is easy to summarise.
•It is more widely accepted as a form of
evidence.
•It is useful for both teacher and student to
assess their teaching and learning.
•It takes less time.
•It is easy to evaluate.

6. DISADVANTAGES
•It is not as rich or detailed as qualitative
assessment.
•It creates unhealthy competitions among
students.
•It also demotivate the students
sometimes.
•It creates inferiority complex among
students.

7. QUALITATIVE
ASSESSMENT
It is collection of data or
information about the learning
outcomes of the students in
qualitative form.
Here non-testing devices are
used for assessing the students.

8. CHARACTERISTICS
•It yields the information which can’t be
expressed in numbers.
•It provides narrative description of
students’ thoughts and opinions.
•It provides information with more depth
and description.
•It is in detailed form.

9. CHARACTERISTICS
•It is process oriented.
•It is subjective by nature.
•It is an interactive process.
•It is biased.
•It is informal.

10. QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT
METHODS
•Interviews
•Diaries
•Essays
•Stories
•Open-ended questions
•Case-studies
•Observation etc.

11. ADVANTAGES
•It is flexible.
•It provides detailed description of
students feelings, thoughts, experiences
and openions.
•It helps in finding the needs of students.
•It helps in assessing all round
development of the students.
•It helps in providing guidance and

12. DISADVANTAGES
•It is time consuming process.
•It is more subjective.
•It is less reliable.
•It is difficult to summarise.
•It is heavily dependent on the skills of
teachers.
•It is difficult to present in visual ways.