UNIT 18                ASSESSMENT TYPES AND TAKS

Assessment tasks take many forms including written, oral, demonstrations or performances. They may be short tasks; or long assignments that students are given weeks to finalize. They may be delivered face-to-face or online and require hard copy or online submission. They may require individual or group assessment and be assessed by academic staff or via peer and self-assessment.

Foremost in your thinking when choosing an assessment task is its appropriateness in assessing what it is that students need to learn (learning objectives).

There are many types of assessment tasks to choose from. Assessment Matters! Provides a short list only of the more typical assessment tasks used.

Testing, especially any sort of standardized testing tends to get a bad rap. Teachers complain that they spend too much time teaching to a test. But assessments do have value, and an important place in our learning structure. By measuring what students are learning, we as teachers can look at how we are approaching different subjects, materials, and even different students.

There are many types of assessments: diagnostic, formative, summative, norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, and interim/benchmarked are the types overviewed here.

There are five main question types: multiple choices, constructed response, extended constructed response, technology enhanced, and performance task.

Three main delivery methods of assessment: paper and pencil, online, or computer adaptive testing (which uses an algorithm to adapt to a user’s responses).

Scoring can be done by hand, by computer, or distributed scoring.

REFERENCES:

http://www.edudemic.com/the-6-types-of-assessments-and-how-theyre-changing/