MODULE 1

Basic Concepts in Assessment

Name: Divine Grace V. Galorio C19- 11095

BEEd - II

PRETEST
I. Direction: Read the options and statements carefully and encircle the letter of your answer.

1. What is a classroom assessment?

a. The collection, evaluation, and use of information to help teachers make decisions that improve student
learning.
b. The collection, evaluation, and use of information to help teachers make decisions that decrease student
learning.
c. An interpretation of what has been gathered through measurement.
d. A judgment of student behavior
2. The four essential components to implementing classroom assessments are:
a. Purpose, measurement, evaluation and use
b. Purpose, measurement, performance standards, and use.
c. Purpose, measurement, criteria and use.
d. Purpose, performance standards, criteria and evaluation.
3. Which of the following is not a reason for doing classroom assessments?
a. To diagnose students’ strengths and weaknesses.
b. To assign grades.
c. To assign grades based on behavior.
d. To provide feedback for students.
4. This is defined as the process by which traits, characteristics, or behaviors are differentiated.
A. Measurement
b. Interpretation
 c. Criteria
d. Evaluation
5. Teachers’ professional judgments play a large role in
A. Measurement
B. Evaluation
c. Performance standards
d. Criteria

LEARNING ACTIVITIES
I. Direction: Identify the term being described. Write your answers in the space provided for each
number.
Evaluation_______1. It is the process of making judgments based on criteria and evidence.
Assessment______2. It the method of describing, collecting, recording, scoring and
interpreting information about learning.
Measurement ___3. It refers to the process by which the attributes or dimensions of some physical objects
are determined with the exception of IQ or attitudes.
Testing_________4. It is the administration of test and use of test results to determine if learners can be
promoted or not.
Tests ________5. It is a formal and systematic instrument, usually paper and pencil procedure.
Prognostic test___6. This test forecasts how well a person may do in a certain school subject or work.
Diagnostic Test___7. A test that helps the teacher identify problems or difficulties encountered by students
during instruction.
Speed Test______8. This test requires a time limit for the test taker to answer all items with the same
degree of difficulty.
Scale Test_____9. It assesses the underlying ability of test takers by giving them sufficient time while
answering questions arranged in an increasing order of difficulty.
Performance Test_ 10. This test is a measure which often makes use of accomplishing the learning task
involving minimum accomplishment or none at all.
 II. Direction: Create your own/original 5-item questions based on the lecture given. Provide an answer key.
Direction: Identify the term being described.
1. It is the process of collecting and analyzing knowledge about people's problems and progress in achieving
desired educational objectives.
2. One of the various methods for evaluating the degree of scoring and procedure interpretation built to obtain
details about the level of the students' results.
3. This test consists of a collection of items ranging in difficulty from easy to tough.
4. This test forces the examinee to make forced choices between members of paired or clustered objects,
which is a measure of vocational or academic interest or aesthetic decision.
5. This test is used to decide the type of job an applicant can do in a school environment, as well as the grade
or year level in which the student should enroll after leaving school.

Answer key
1. Evaluation
2. Testing
3. Power Test
4. Preference Test
5. Placement Test

II. Matching type

Match the kind of test (Column A) to its respective key terms (Column B). Write the letter of your
choice in the space provided.
Column A Column B
__ J __ 1. Aptitude Test a. syllabi-based
__H___ 2. Intelligence Test b. academic progress
__E___ 3. Diagnostic Test c. exact procedure
__F___ 4. Speed Test d. job application
__C___ 5. Standardized Test e. weakness
__A___ 6. Teacher-made Test f. alertness
__D___ 7. Placement Test g. Binet-Simon
__B___ 8. Achievement Test h. IQ
___I __ 9. Personality Test i. Myers Briggs
__G___ 10. Scale Test j. predictive measure

ASSESSMENT
I. Direction: Read the options and statements carefully and encircle the letter of your answer.
1. What is a classroom assessment?
a. The collection, evaluation, and use of information to help teachers make decisions that improve
student learning.
b. The collection, evaluation, and use of information to help teachers make decisions that decrease
student learning.
c. An interpretation of what has been gathered through measurement.
d. A judgment of student behavior
2. The four essential components to implementing classroom assessments are:
a. Purpose, measurement, evaluation and use
b. Purpose, measurement, performance standards, and use.
c. Purpose, measurement, criteria and use.
d. Purpose, performance standards, criteria and evaluation.
3. Which of the following is not a reason for doing classroom assessments?
a. To diagnose students’ strengths and weaknesses.
b. To assign grades.
c. To assign grades based on behavior.
d. To provide feedback for students.
4. This is defined as the process by which traits, characteristics, or behaviors are differentiated.
a. Measurement
b. Interpretation
c. Criteria
d. Evaluation
5. Teachers’ professional judgments play a large role in
a. Measurement
b. Evaluation
c. Performance standards
d. Criteria