a) teaching; b) controlling.
The term assessment is generally used to refer to all activities in education. Teachers use assessment not only for clarifying the progress of the learners in learning a foreign language.
Assessment is often divided for the sake of convenience into the following types:
Initial, formative and summative;
Objective and subjective;
Referencing;
Initial assessment refers to as pre – assessment or diagnostic assessment. It is conducted prior to instruction to establish a baseline from which individual learner’s progress can be measured.
Formative assessment is carried out throughout a course or project. This type of assessment also refers to as “educative assessment” and is used to aid learning. It should be stressed that formative assessment would not necessary be used for grading purposes. Formative assessment can take the form of diagnostic, standardized tests. Formative assessment techniques monitor student learning during the learning process.
Summative assessment is generally carried out at the end of course or project is typically used to assign a course grade of learners. It evaluates student learning. The difference between the formative and summative assessment can be explained with the following analogy:
When teacher prepares test tasks that’s formative. And when the learners have these tasks (or tests) that’s summative.
A common form of formative assessment is diagnostic assessment it measures a student’s current knowledge. And skill for the purpose of identifying a suitable program of learning.
Self – assessment is a form of diagnostic assessment. It involves the learners to assess themselves.
Objective and subjective assessment.
Assessment is often categorized as either objective or subjective.
Objective assessment is a form of questioning which has a single correct answer. And Subjective assessment is a form of questioning which may have more than one correct answer or more than one way of expressing the correct answer.
Objective question types include true / false answers, multiple choice, multiple – response and matching questions.
Subjective questions include extended – response questions and essays.
Objective assessment is well suited online assessment format.
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