"Educational assessment or educational evaluation is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning."
Process of designing and developing assessments that are reliable, valid, and aligned with learning objectives.
Learning objectives: Define what students should be able to do or know after completing a program or course.
Grading criteria: Provide clear guidelines on how students will be evaluated and graded.
Test development: Design and create tests that accurately assess student knowledge and understanding.
Rubrics: Establish a clear scoring system for student assignments and assessments.
Item analysis: Evaluate the effectiveness of test questions and examine student performance on specific items.
Assessment tools: Identify and use appropriate assessment tools to measure student achievement.
Validity and reliability: Ensure that assessments are valid (measure what they intend to measure) and reliable (produce consistent results over time).
Formative assessment: Use ongoing assessments to inform instruction and monitor student progress.
Summative assessment: Assess student achievement at the end of a unit or course to determine overall mastery.
Balanced assessment: Use a variety of assessment methods to provide a comprehensive understanding of student learning.
Formative Assessment: An assessment designed to monitor student learning progress during instruction to provide timely feedback and adjust instruction.
Summative Assessment: An assessment designed to evaluate student learning outcomes at the end of instruction or a unit of study.
Diagnostic Assessment: An assessment designed to help teachers identify student strengths and weaknesses in a particular area to adjust instruction.
Criterion-Referenced Assessment: An assessment designed to measure student performance against a predetermined set of criteria or standards.
Norm-Referenced Assessment: An assessment designed to compare student performance against a group of students who have taken the same test.
Performance Assessment: An assessment designed to evaluate student mastery of real-world tasks or problems.
Portfolio Assessment: An assessment designed to showcase a student's best work over time.
Authentic Assessment: An assessment designed to evaluate student performance in real-world contexts, such as projects or simulations.
Program Evaluation: An assessment designed to evaluate the effectiveness of educational programs, such as curriculum or intervention programs.
Self-Assessment: An assessment designed for students to evaluate their own learning progress, including their strengths and weaknesses.
Peer Assessment: An assessment designed for students to evaluate their classmates' learning progress based on predetermined criteria.
360-Degree Assessment: An assessment designed for a variety of stakeholders (teachers, students, parents, etc.) to provide feedback on student learning progress.
Dynamic Assessment: An assessment designed to identify a student's learning potential by providing support and guidance during the assessment process.
Rubric Assessment: An assessment designed to evaluate student performance based on a set of criteria and a scoring system.
Adaptive Assessment: An assessment designed to adjust the difficulty of questions based on a student's previous answers to provide a more accurate assessment of their knowledge and skills.
"Assessment data can be obtained from directly examining student work to assess the achievement of learning outcomes or can be based on data from which one can make inferences about learning."
"Assessment is often used interchangeably with test, but not limited to tests."
"Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community, a course, an academic program, the institution, or the educational system as a whole (also known as granularity)."
"The word 'assessment' came into use in an educational context after the Second World War."
"As a continuous process, assessment establishes measurable and clear student learning outcomes, providing a sufficient amount of learning opportunities to achieve these outcomes, implementing a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches expectations."
"Assessment is an important aspect of the educational process which determines the level of accomplishments of students."
"The final purpose of assessment practices in education depends on the theoretical framework of the practitioners and researchers, their assumptions and beliefs about the nature of the human mind, the origin of knowledge, and the process of learning."
"...using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude, and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning."
"Assessment data can be obtained from directly examining student work to assess the achievement of learning outcomes..."
"Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community, a course, an academic program, the institution, or the educational system as a whole..."
"Implementing a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches expectations."
"Assessment establishes measurable and clear student learning outcomes."
"...providing a sufficient amount of learning opportunities to achieve these outcomes, implementing a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence to determine how well student learning matches expectations, and using the collected information to inform improvement in student learning."
"Assessment is an important aspect of the educational process which determines the level of accomplishments of students."
"The final purpose of assessment practices in education depends on the theoretical framework of the practitioners and researchers..."
"Assessment... determines the level of accomplishments of students."
"Using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, aptitude, and beliefs to refine programs and improve student learning."
"The final purpose of assessment practices in education depends on the... assumptions and beliefs about the nature of the human mind, the origin of knowledge, and the process of learning."
"As a continuous process, assessment establishes measurable and clear student learning outcomes, provides a sufficient amount of learning opportunities to achieve these outcomes, implements a systematic way of gathering, analyzing and interpreting evidence..."