TYPES OF ASSESSMENT :

Introduction
 Origin

Academic testing : TVE : occupational

Academic skills skills
• Mental testing in • Competency
psychology and based
education • What is
competency?
 Competency
• Curriculum content, test items, and
performance exercises are derived from
analyses of actual tasks performed by people
in specific jobs or occupational areas.
 Philosophy of competency-based
assessment
• In vocational education, testing and assessment
are not after fact, external processes of
inspection but integral parts of the process of
education

• A process where student responses to a task or

variety of tasks over a period of time are carefully
observed and evaluated or interpreted according
to some set of agreed on criteria or dimension.
 Focus of assessment in tve
• Criterion referenced rather than norm
referenced

• Measure whether students have the

knowledge and skills needed for particular
jobs rather than how they perform relative to
other students.
 TYPES OF Competency ASSESSMENT
• Competency testing: Written testing Short
answer and multiple choice
• Competency assessment
- Performance tasks
- Projects
- Portfolios – profile of competencies - evidence
 Types of competency based assessment

Competency Competency
testing assessment
• Written test • Performance
tasks
• Projects
• Portfolios