Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Types of assessment
- Assessment is a continuing process that takes
place on classrooms.
- Teachers assess learners all the time by judging their
performances intentionally and non-intentionally.
- Formative Assessment
- It's about evaluating students for their performances by giving
correct feedback, so they can continue improving and forming their
skills and abilities.
- Summative Assessment
- It is an assessment through tests with which the knowledge acquired by
students is measured at the end of a lesson, unit or course to know their
progress and whether they have met the learning objectives.
- Norm-referenced Assessment
- Test-takers receive a numerical score, and its percentage according
to the performance of other test-takers when compared to mean,
median and standard deviation. They are designed for a large
audience that will pay for them.
- Criterion-referenced assessment
- It categorize test-takers in basic, proficient and advance. Also, they receive
feedback about their performance, a grade that is not compared to the
performance of other test-takers, but to an standard score.
- Diagnostic Assessment
- This type of test is applied to know certain aspects of language in the
performance of learners by providing a categorization of the necessary
information about them, such as stress, rhythm, intonation, etc.