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.