Assessment is an integral part of teaching and learning

Assessment is an integral part of teaching and learning. Teachers use informal and formal assessments on an ongoing basis to make decisions about their students, evaluate the success of their instruction and to monitor classroom climate.
The typical teacher spends about a third of his\her professional time engaged in assessment-related activities. Because classroom-based assessment is so critical to the instructional process learning about assessment is essential to learning about teaching. In course, you will develop and evaluate formative and summative assessment of simple and complex student knowledge belief and\or attitudes associated with a subject-matter domain a particular target audience.