Basic Concepts in Assessment

assessment
evaluation
measurement
test
testing
formative assessment
placement assessment
diagnostic assessment
summative assessment
traditional assessment
portfolio assessment
performance assessment

Important concepts to remember:

1. Purposes of assessment
2. Types of assessment
3. Principles of assessment – Guidelines for effective student
assessment

ASSESSMENT – as an act of collecting, and interpreting

information/data about student learning. – Utilization
(intervention)

Assessment of Learning – focuses on the development and

utilization of assessment tools to improve the teaching-learning
process.
Test – formal and systematic instrument (ex. paper-pencil test) It
is designed to assess the quality, ability, skill of knowledge of
students by giving a set of questions in uniform manner.

Testing – is one of the different methods used to measure the

level of performance or achievement of the learners.
- Refers to administration, scoring, and interpretation of the
test.

Measurement – is a process of quantifying or assigning number

to the students’ intelligence, personality, attitudes, values and
achievement. – quantitative data
- We express assessment data in terms of numerical values
and answer the question “how much?”

Evaluation – refers to the process of judging the quality of what is

good and what is desirable. – qualitative data
- It is the comparison of data to asset of standard or
learning criteria for the purpose of judging the worth or
quality.

Ex. Garlene in English class got 23 correct answers out of 25

items in a test on Figures of Speech. - 92% in the test
– Measurement

Ex. In oral examination in English, Mark failed because he was

not able to explain comprehensively the issue related to the
literary piece they have read. – Evaluation
Stages of Instruction

1. Beginning of Instruction
Placement Assessment – concerned with the
entry performance.
Diagnostic Assessment – weaknesses and
strengths regarding the topic

Ex. Spiral Progression

2. During Instruction
Formative Assessment – monitor the learning
progress of the students during the instruction.
 You can provide feedback
 Identity learning errors
Diagnostic Assessment – weaknesses and strengths
regarding the topic
 Informal assessment – Questions during
instruction
2. End of Instruction
Summative Assessment – given at the end of the
course/unit. To determine the extent to which the
instructional objectives have been met. _TOS (Table of
Specification)
Unit test, Chapter test, long quizzes, quarterly exams
What's the difference between measurement and evaluation?