This document discusses three purposes of classroom assessment: assessment for learning, assessment of learning, and assessment as learning. Assessment for learning is formative and helps teachers understand student progress to adjust teaching. Assessment of learning is summative and measures student achievement against standards. Assessment as learning involves students assessing their own learning to improve. The key is using each assessment purpose appropriately and balancing them to best support student learning.

1. PURPOSES OF
CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT

2. Purposes of Classroom Assessment
Assessment
FOR
Learning
Assessment
AS
Learning

3. • more commonly known as formative and diagnostic
assessment
• the use of a task or an activity for the purpose of
determining student progress during a unit or block of
instruction
• check for students’ understanding and make
adjustments to the teaching process
Assessment for Learning

4. • It requires careful design on the part of teachers so that
they use the resulting information to determine not only
what students know, but also to gain insights into how,
when, and whether students apply what they know.
• Formative assessment information can come from
questioning and discussion with students, from their work
(quizzes, assignments, homework), or from direct
observation of students doing their work.
Assessment for Learning

5. • often known as summative assessment
• is used to confirm what students know and can do, to
demonstrate whether they have achieved the curriculum
outcomes, and, occasionally, to show how they are placed
in relation to others.
• the use of a task or an activity to measure, record and
report on a student’s level of achievement in regards to
specific learning expectations
Assessment of Learning

6. • the use of a task or an activity to allow students the
opportunity to use assessment to further their own
learning
• requires teacher to undergo training on how to assess
learning and be equipped with the competencies
needed in performing their work as assessors
Assessment as Learning

7. • Assessment as learning focuses on the role of the
student as the critical connector between assessment
and learning.
• Students monitor their own learning and use the
feedback from this monitoring to make adjustments,
adaptations, and even major changes in what they
understand.
Assessment as Learning

8. • It is purpose that dictates how assessment is constructed and
used.
• It is important for educators to understand the three assessment
purposes, recognize the need to balance among them, know
which one they are using and why, and use them all wisely.
How are we going to use these assessments?