SESSION

Assessment Tools
and its
Standards
Objectives
1. Identify appropriate assessment tool used
for each level of Assessment

2. Develop/Craft appropriate test item per

assessment tool

3. Reflect on the importance of the teacher’s

knowledge and skills in the use of different
assessment tools.
What are your thoughts/insights
about their conversation?
It is assessment which helps
distinguish between teaching
and learning
Types of ASSESSMENT

I. TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT

II. ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT

 I. Traditional Assessment

are tests given to the students

to measure how much the
students have learned
 A. Quiz and Test Items

Assess factual information and concepts

Use selected response (multiple choice,
true or false or matching type format )

Easily scored using answer keys

Typically, secure (items are not known in
advance)
Examples of Quiz and Test

A. Selective type
a. Multiple choice
b. Alternative Response (true or false, yes or no)
c. Matching type

B. Supply type
a. Completion test
b. Short answer test
II. Alternative Assessment

Any type of assessment in which

students create a response to a
question or task
 A. Academic Prompts
 Open ended questions or problems that require
students to think critically

 Require constructed response to specific prompt

(essay)

 are ‘’open ‘’ with no single best answer

 Typically require an explanation or defense of the

answer given

 Require judgment-based scoring based on criteria

and performance standard (RUBRIC)
Examples of Academic Prompt

 Essay

 Open ended question

 Problem solving

 Reflective Journal
 B. Performance Tasks
 Complex challenges that mirror real - life
situations

 Range in length from short term task to long term

task

 Require students to address an identified audience

 Allow students greater opportunity to personalize

the task

 Are not secure ( task, evaluative criteria, and

performance standards are known in advance)
Example of Performance Task
I. Demonstration
II. Oral presentation
III. Projects
IV. Research work
V. Field work
VI. Portfolio
VII. GRASPS
Goal Role Audience Situation Product Standard

A complex scenario that provides students

opportunity to demonstrate what they know
and are able to do concerning a given concept
Constructing a Performance Task Scenario
Using GRASPS
 GOAL - Your task is ______________________________.
The goal is to
_______________________________.
The problem or challenge is ________________.
The obstacles to overcome are
_______________.

 ROLE You are __________________________.

You have been asked to ____________________.
Your job is ___________________.

 AUDIENCE: Your clients are _____________________.

The target audience is ________________.
You need to convince __________________.

SITUATION
The context you find yourself in is __________
The challenge involves dealing with _________


PRODUCT, PERFORMANCE and
PURPOSE
You will create a ____________________ in order to
__________________________.
You need to develop _________ so that ______


STANDARDS and CRITERIA for
SUCCESS
You performance needs to _______________.
Your work will be judged by ________________.
Your product must meet the following standards
___.
A successful result will __________________.
 Possible Products and Performances

Written Oral Visual

Advertisement Audio tape Computer
graphic
Journal Debate Collage
Magazine Dramatization Cartoon
article
Web site Puppet show Flyer
Play Rap PowerPoint
show
Lab report Skit Scrapbook
Editorial Poetry reading Painting
“The best way to assess yourself
is to base the assessment on the
product you produce daily”.
Adelaja