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Assessmen Advantages Disadvantages Appropriateness for

t assessment for
techniques learning
Multiple can assess a wide range of may not adequately can provide quick
Choice content quickly, making assess deep diagnostic
Questions them useful for evaluating understanding, information about
a variety of skills and complex problem- individual students'
knowledge within a short solving, or understanding and
timeframe. application of misconceptions.
knowledge in real-
world contexts.
Fill in the Fill in the Blanks Limited Application - used to reinforce
Blanks questions effectively Fill in the Blanks concepts introduced
assess students' recall of questions may in lessons
information and their primarily assess
understanding of concepts, lower-level cognitive
requiring them to provide skills
missing words in context
to demonstrate
comprehension.
Counting Counting Activities Counting Activities they effectively
Activities effectively assess students' may primarily assess gauge students'
foundational math skills, basic numerical skills development in
such as counting, number and might not be numerical
recognition, and basic suitable for understanding and
arithmetic. evaluating more basic math skills.
complex
mathematical
concepts or problem-
solving abilities.
True/False Certain aspects of the Poorly constructed Must judge and
Question subject matter can be true-false items often mark as either true
judged true or false. assess only specific, of false.
Be relatively easy to write. frequently trivial
Be scored easily and facts;
objectively. Ambiguously
Cover a wide range of worded.
content. Answered correctly
by random guessing.
Encourage students to
study and accept only
oversimplified
statements of truth
and factual details.

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