What is an assessment test Types

1. What is assessment ?
Assessment is the ongoing process of gathering,
analysing and reflecting on evidence to make
informed and consistent judgements to improve
future student learning.

2. Classroom Assessment
• Date:25-08-2014
• Topic:
• Facilitator
• Zulfiqar Behan
• (Asstt:Prof)
• GECE,Lyari Karachi.

3. What Is an Assessment Test?
An assessment test measures the knowledge, aptitude
and skills of an individual. Most commonly, students
and professional workers take assessment tests.
Schools conduct assessment tests to check the
progress of students.

4. Benefits
Assessment tests for students help instructors determine
whether the student has reached the learning goal or
not. Career and personality assessment tests do not
guarantee the ideal career, but they might be useful
tools for narrowing down options.

5. VELS advocates 3 types of
assessment
 formative
 summative
 authentic

6. Formative assessment is a continuous
and ongoing process, part of day to day
teaching where teachers continually
confirm or modify their activities and
directions with their students.

7. The second form of assessment advocated in
VELS is Summative – which is used at the end
of a unit or semester to determine what each
student has achieved and learnt.

8. The final type of assessment, Authentic, involving
the application of knowledge and skills over time
requires clear criteria of which students are aware
and involved.
“In relating assessment criteria to clearly developed
learning expectations with a given task, students
think carefully about what is being assessed and
the kinds of evidence that would need to be
provided to show their understanding.”
VELS Assessment p3

9. Some strategies you may have listed
Formative:
 Brainstorming
 Concept maps
 Know Want Learn How
 Pathfinders or search plans
 Graphic organizers
 Note taking
 Questioning

10. Assessment for learning:
 establishes a classroom culture that encourages
interaction and the use of assessment tools
 occurs throughout a learning sequence and is
planned when teachers design teaching and learning
activities
 involves teachers sharing learning intentions and
explicit assessment criteria with students
 involves teachers and students setting and
monitoring student progress against learning goals
 requires teachers to ascertain students' prior
knowledge, perceptions and misconceptions

11. Assessment for learning:
(continued)
 involves teachers focusing on how students learn and
how to scaffold their learning
 involves teachers adapting teaching practice to meet
student needs
 provides sensitive and constructive feedback to
students on their performance
 involves teachers making formative use of summative
assessment

12. Assessment of learning:
 enables students to demonstrate what they know and
can do
 describes the extent to which a student has
achieved the learning goals, including the Standards
 uses teacher judgements about student
achievement at a point in time
 is supported by examples or evidence of student
learning
 ensures consistent teacher judgements through
moderation processes
 is used to plan future learning goals