EDT 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Summative Assessment, Formative Assessment
3 Apr 2016
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Assessment: process teachers use to gather information and make decision about students" learning and development. Standardized tests: assessment instruments given to large samples of students, nationwide, under uniform condition and scored and reported according to uniform procedures. Informal assessment: gather information continually as they interact with students in their classrooms. Formal assessment: assessment designed to systematically gather the same kind of information from every students. Typically objective, scorers don"t have to make decisions about the quality of the answer. Direct examinations of student performance on tasks relevant to life outside of school. Collection of student works such as essays, quizzes, projects, samples of poetry, lab reports, etc Formative assessment: not graded, just used to assess students" learning. Summative assessment: the process of assessing learning after instruction and using results for grading decisions. Reliability: refers to the consistency of assessment results. Validity and reliability can be a problem with informal assessments because teachers" decisions often are influenced by students" physical characteristics.
