Submitted to

Dr. Saima muneer

Submitted by
Hafsa Rehman
Roll no
2020-1901
Program
MS.Ed
Semester
2nd
Session
2020-2022
Course
Educational assessment and evaluation
Topic
Activity 01 (types of assessment)
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EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

Activity 01
Assessment is defined as a proper collection, interpretation and use of information in
regards to learning. It gives the teacher a better awareness about the knowledge of peoples and
their understanding and what are learning experiences are also about their skills and personal
characters and capabilities.
Types of assessment
1. Summative Assessment
2. Formative Assessment
3. Evaluative assessment
4. Diagnostic Assessment
5. Norm-referenced tests (NRT)
6. Performance-based assessments
7. Selective response assessment
8. Authentic assessment
9. Criterion-referenced tests
10. Written and Oral Assessment

Summative Assessment
Summative comes from the word summary. The summative assessment arrives at the
very end of the learning sequence and is used to record the students overall achievement at the
end of learning.
 Example
Examples of summative assessment II midterms and final papers and examinations which
give overall knowledge test of the student at the end of the learning. The summative assessment
gives an insight into an overall scenario of the understanding of the student regarding particular
learning or a topic.

Formative Assessment
Formative assessment includes a variety of formal and informal assessment procedures
which are used by teachers in the classroom so that they can modify the teaching an improve the
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student’s attention retention and his learning activity. The primary objective of formative
assessments is to involve the attention of the students and help them achieve their goals.

Evaluative assessment
This is concerned only with evaluating assessment. The overall idea is to evaluate the
assessment in the school or in the system or in the department. Evaluative assessment is done
only with the aim of evaluating and grading the candidates.

Diagnostic Assessment
When the objective is to identify individual strengths and areas of improvement
diagnostic assessment is the one that is used. It helps to inform next steps in the assessment bike
including the strengths and weaknesses areas of improvement and other characteristics.

Norm-referenced tests (NRT)

Norm-referenced tests commonly known as NRT tests. The term normative assessment
means the process of comparing one test taker to his seniors or peers.
The primary objective behind this test is to determine whether the test taker has performed better
or worse than the other test takers which in turn determines whether the test taker knows more or
less than the other test takers.

Performance-based assessments
This is also known as education assessment in which the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and
beliefs of the student are checked to improve the standard of learning.

Selective response assessment

This refers to the objective assessments including multiple choice true or false and
matching questions. It is a very selective effective and efficient method to measure the
knowledge of students.

Authentic assessment
Intellectual assessments that are worthwhile significant and substantial are measured by
authentic assessment. In contrast, to standardize tests authentic assessment provides deep
insights about the student.
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It focuses to enable the skills of students to demonstrate their capabilities and competencies in a
more authentic setting.

Criterion-referenced tests
This kind of assessment determines the performance of student against a fixed set of pre-
determined and agreed upon criteria or the learning of students.

Written and Oral Assessment

These include projects, term papers, exam papers, essays etc. The primary objective
behind the written assessment is to determine the knowledge and understanding of the student.
Written assessments are performed under the supervision of the teacher.

Step 2
Review:
The purpose or goal of assessment is continual improvement and quality assurance, and it
can be focused on the individual learner, an organized group of learners, the institution or the
educational system as a whole. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment is an ongoing process
undertaken by academic programs to establish measurable expected outcomes of student
learning, collect and analyze evidence to determine how well student learning matches those
expectations, and use the resulting information to improve curriculum.