"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."
Methods for measuring the effectiveness of the curriculum, including formative and summative assessments.
Curriculum development: The process of designing and developing an educational curriculum, including the goals, outcomes, and assessments.
Assessment and evaluation: The process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the effectiveness of educational programs and initiatives.
Learning objectives: The specific goals and outcomes that students should achieve by the end of a course or program.
Bloom’s taxonomy: A framework for categorizing learning objectives by level of complexity and mastery.
Authentic assessment: Assessment tasks that closely resemble real-world tasks and challenges.
Rubrics: Criteria for evaluating student work and providing feedback.
Formative assessment: Assessment that occurs during the learning process to monitor progress and provide feedback to students.
Summative assessment: Assessment that occurs at the end of a learning process to evaluate student achievement.
Standardized testing: Assessment methods that use standardized formats and criteria to evaluate student performance.
Quality assurance: The process of ensuring that educational programs meet established standards of quality and effectiveness.
Educational measurement: The process of quantifying learning outcomes and student achievement.
Data analysis: The process of collecting, interpreting, and using data to evaluate educational programs and initiatives.
Educational research: The systematic investigation of educational practices, policies, and outcomes.
Program evaluation: The process of assessing the effectiveness of educational programs and initiatives.
Accreditation: The process of evaluating educational programs and institutions to ensure they meet established standards of quality and effectiveness.
Diagnostic assessment: This type of assessment is conducted at the beginning of a course or program to determine what students already know and what they need to learn.
Formative assessment: This ongoing type of assessment is conducted during the course of instruction to monitor student progress, identify areas where students are struggling, and adjust instruction accordingly.
Summative assessment: This type of assessment is conducted at the end of a course or program to evaluate how well students have achieved the intended learning outcomes.
Standardized testing: This type of assessment is often used to measure student achievement against a predetermined set of standards. Examples include the SAT, ACT, and state tests.
Performance-based assessment: This type of assessment requires students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills through real-world tasks, such as presentations or projects.
Rubric-based assessment: This type of assessment uses a detailed scoring guide (rubric) to evaluate student work based on specific criteria.
Authentic assessment: This type of assessment requires students to apply their learning in real-world contexts that mimic the types of situations they will encounter outside of the classroom.
Self-assessment: This type of assessment allows students to reflect on their own learning and evaluate their own progress.
Peer assessment: This type of assessment involves students evaluating the work of their classmates.
360-degree assessment: This type of assessment involves collecting feedback from a student's teachers, peers, and other stakeholders to provide a more comprehensive evaluation of their progress.
Portfolio assessment: This type of assessment involves collecting and evaluating a student's work over time to demonstrate their progress and mastery of skills.
Criterion-referenced assessment: This type of assessment evaluates whether a student has met a predetermined level of proficiency in a given area, rather than comparing them to other students.
Norm-referenced assessment: This type of assessment compares a student's performance to that of their peers, with the assumption that there will be a normal distribution of scores.
"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..."