Assessment and Evaluation

What is formative assessment?

• A process, not a test; to inform during the instruction for immediate or near future use (to change or improve instruction)

• a standard for evaluating learning of students and the procedures that provides the required information

• an act of passing judgement on the basis of set of standards that determines the extent to which objectives are achieved

One of the tip in writing a test question is giving students experience with the types of questions with which will be testing.

• True

• False

A characteristic of assessments that actually measures the learning objectives. 

• course evaluation 
• peer evaluation
• validity
• rubric

tool that is used at the end of a unit to prove how much information a student has learned during this unit.

• testing

• evaluation

• grading

• assessment

Which are types of formative assessment?

• Portafolios

• Observation, homework, class activities, students feedback

• Tests and evaluations

• Rubrics and checklists

Assessment contains all these elements except

• Measurement

• Testing

• Evaluation

• Reflection

________ test are administered after certain blocks of study (i.e. at the end of the unit, etc )

• Face validity

• Formative

• Progress

• Placement

EVALUATION is important for decision-making about...

• ... the teaching practice.

• ... the learning process.

• .. the validity of the content, syllabus and program.

• all of the above

____________ is important to ensure consistency and fairness.

• Validity

• Reliability

• Rating

• Creativity

CRITERION VALIDITY involves...

• ... predictive and concurrent validity.

• .. predictive and content validity.

• ... proficiency and assessing validity.

• ... concurrent and construct validity.