This document provides an introduction to assessments, including definitions of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments. It describes different types of assessments such as aptitude tests, personality tests, and work sample tests. The document also discusses objective and subjective tests, as well as how assessments are used for education, selection, recruitment, and development. It covers topics like raw scores, percentiles, and norm-based scoring of assessments.

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By Ravi Kumar,
Think Assessments, Think RK!
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“A systematic sample of behavior taken
to allow inferences about an
individual‟s knowledge, skill, ability or
other trait.” - ETS
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 Diagnostic assessments
 Formative assessments
 Summative assessments
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“An assessment that is primarily used
to identify the needs and prior
knowledge of participants for the
purpose of directing them to the most
appropriate learning experience.”
e.g. career counseling, pre-training, etc
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“An assessment that has a primary
objective of providing practice for
search and retrieval from memory for a
student and to provide prescriptive
feedback.”
e.g. learning, certifications, exams, etc.
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“An assessment, usually quantitative,
whose primary purpose is to give a definitive
grade and/or make a judgment about the
participant's achievement. If this judgment
verifies that the participant has met an
established standard indicative of special
expertise, the judgment may confer
„certification‟.”
e.g. academic testing, typing test, driving test, etc.
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 Attainment tests
 Aptitude tests
 Work sample tests
 Personality tests
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“ Tests that primarily seek to
assess how well someone has
learnt about a particular
subject.”
e.g. language tests, domain tests, etc.
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“ Also called as potential or abilities
test, measures aptitude such as
numerical reasoning, analytical
reasoning, logical reasoning, etc.”
e.g. CAT, GRE, Recruitment tests, etc.
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“ Tests that are based on the actual tasks
required by a job are called as Work sample
tests. Also called as Performance tests they
use the „actual‟ or „simulation‟ based tools for
testing purpose.”
e.g. Programming, Networking, Accounting, Office
Applications, Flight testing, etc.
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“ Personality or Behavioral tests are
intended towards measuring human
traits such as intelligence, motivation,
emotional stability, sociability,
influencing, etc.”
e.g. 16 PF (Pearson), OPQ (SHL), PPA (Thomas)
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 Subjective tests
 Objective tests (Offline, Online)
 Task tests
 Interviews / Discussions
 Audio / Visual / Interactive tests
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 Education and Training
 Selection
 Recruitment
 Potential
 Development
 Profile Match
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 Raw Scores and Percentage
 Percentiles and Ranks
 Criterion based scores
 Norm based scores
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