ASSESSING LEARNERS PERFORMANCE

What do we mean by assessing student

performance ?

This means that learning must be assessed

through performance: what students can do
with their learning.

Here are some suggestions and strategies for

assessing student learning and performance.

o Creating assignments
o Creating exams
o Using classroom Assessment techniques

What is the purpose of assessing student

performance.

The purpose of Assessment is to gather

relevant information about student
performance or progress; or to determine
student interests to make judgments about
their learning process.

What’s the purpose of different types of

Assessments ?

➢ Different types of assessments can help you

understand student progress in various ways.

➢ In your classroom, Assessments generally

have one of three purposes;

1. Assessment of learning
2. Assessment for learning
3. Assessment as learning

Assessment of learning

Assessments of learning are usually

grade-based, and can include;

➢ Exams
➢ Portfolios
➢ Final projects
➢ Standardized tests

Assessment for learning

➢ Assessments for learning provide you with a

clear snapshot of student learning and
understanding as you teach—allowing you to
adjust everything from your classroom
management strategies to your lesson plans
as you go.

➢ Assessments for learning should always be

ongoing and actionable.

Assessment as learning

➢ Assessment as learning actively involves

students in learning process. It teaches critical
thinking skills, problem-solving and
encourages students to set achievable goals
for themselves and objectively measure their
progress.

6 types of Assessment

1. Diagnostic Assessment

➢ When you structure diagnostic Assessments

around your lesson, you’ll get the information
you need to understand student knowledge
and engage your whole classroom.

➢ Diagnostic Assessments can also help

benchmark student progress. Consider giving
the same assessment at the end of the unit so
student can see how far they’ve come.

2. Formative Assessment

➢ It helps teachers understand student

learning while they teach, and provide them
with information to adjust their teaching
strategies accordingly.

➢ Formative Assessments help you track how

student knowledge is growing and changing in
your classroom in real time.

3. Summative Assessment

➢ It measure student progress as an

assessment of learning. Standardized tests are
a type of summative assessment and provide
data for you, school leaders and district
leaders.

4. Ipsative Assessments

➢ Ipsative Assessments are one of the types of

assessment as learning that compares
previous results with a second try, motivating
students to set goals and improve their skills.

You can incorporate ipsative Assessments

into your classroom with

o Portfolios
o A two-stage testing process
o Project-based activities.

5. norm-referenced Assessements

➢ It is a tests designed to compare an

individual to a group of their peers, usually
based on national standards and occasionally
adjusted for age, ethnicity or other
demographics.

➢ Unlike ipsative Assessments, where the

student is only competing against themselves,
norm referenced assessments draw from a
wide range of data points to make conclusions
about student achievement.

✗ Types of norm-referenced assessments

include:
✗ IQ tests
✗ Physical assessments
✗ Standardized college admissions tests like
the SAT and GRE

6. Criterion referenced Assessments

➢ Criterion-referenced Assessments compare

the score of an individual student to a learning
standard and performance level, independent
of other students around them

➢ Criterion-referenced Assessments are most

often compared with norm-referenced
assessments.