The document discusses assessment techniques used to evaluate student learning. It defines assessment as the process of collecting information to increase student development and learning. There are three types of assessments: diagnostic to identify learning difficulties, formative to provide feedback during the learning process, and summative to evaluate learning at the end of a unit. Some assessment techniques mentioned include classroom tests, presentations, observations, discussions, questioning, and self-assessment where students evaluate their own learning.

2. Assessment Techniques
By: Saba Munir

3. Objectives
 State the meaning of assessment
 Explain the need of assessment
 Discuss Assessment techniques

4. Assessment
Assessment is the systematic basis for making inferences about the learning and
development of students. It is the process of defining, selecting, designing,
collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and using information to increase students' learning
and development.

5. Key Points
Where the
learner is right
now
Where the
learner is
going
How to get
there

6. Tell us what the student needs to learn. Teachers identify the nature of
the pupil’s learning difficulties and use this information to plan
interventions to address the issues discovered.
Diagnostic
Assessment
Formative
Assessment
Is a part of everyday teaching and learning process to:
Tell us how well the student is doing as work processes.
Summative
Assessment
Tells us how well a student did at the end of a
unit/task.

7. Why is it important to assess?
 To find out what the students know (knowledge)
 To find out what the students can do, and how well they can do it (skill,
Performance).
 To find out how students go about the task of doing their work (process).
 To find out how students feel about their work (motivation ,effort)

8. What are assessment techniques?
 Classroom assessment techniques CATs are a set of specific activities that
instructors can use to quickly gauge students comprehension.

9. Assessment
Techniques
Teacher
Observation
Classroom
Test
Presentation
Disscussion
Effective
Questioning

10. Self Assessment
 Self-assessment provides students with an opportunity to self-evaluate, or make judgments about
their learning process and products of learning, based on criteria that they have agreed on with their
instructor.