"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."
The process of evaluating student learning and progress.
Assessment in Education: Definition and Importance: This topic provides an introduction to assessment, why it is important in education, and the various types of assessments.
Types of Assessment: One of the major topics to cover when learning about assessment is the different types of assessments such as formative, summative, diagnostic, etc.
Assessment Methods and Instruments: This topic covers the various ways that assessments are administered, including paper-and-pencil tests, performance assessments, portfolios, and others.
Standards-based Assessment: This topic covers how assessments can be aligned with standards to measure student progress and inform instructional practices.
Grading and Reporting: This topic dives into the process of grading and reporting, including the challenges of measuring student learning and communicating progress to parents and other stakeholders.
Assessment Validity and Reliability: This topic covers how assessments can be validated and how reliability can be established to ensure that results are accurate.
Bias in Assessment: One of the most important issues in assessment is how it may be biased towards specific groups or individuals. This topic covers some of the common biases in assessments and ways to reduce them.
Assessment and Classroom Instruction: This topic covers how assessment can be integrated into classroom instruction, including the use of assessment data to guide teaching and learning.
Assessment Ethics and Policy: This topic covers the ethical and policy issues surrounding the use of assessment in education, including privacy concerns and the use of assessments for high-stakes decisions.
Assessment and Assessment Design: This topic covers the process of designing assessments, including creating clear learning objectives, aligning assessments to standards, and selecting appropriate assessment methods and instruments.
Formative Assessment: Ongoing assessment during the learning process to provide feedback that can be used to improve learning and teaching.
Summative Assessment: Assessment at the end of a learning phase to evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process. It is usually graded and serves as a final evaluation of learning outcomes.
Diagnostic Assessment: Assessments to evaluate learners' strengths and weaknesses and identify their needs to create individualized learning plans.
Norm-referenced Assessment: Evaluations that compare students' performance to that of other students in the same age group or grade level.
Criterion-referenced Assessment: Assessments that measure student performance against specific learning objectives or criteria.
Performance-based Assessment: Evaluations that measure a student's ability to apply knowledge and skills to real-life tasks or problems.
Authentic Assessment: Assessments that evaluate students' understanding and ability to apply knowledge in real-world contexts.
Portfolio Assessment: Collection of student work over time to demonstrate their progress and achievements.
Peer Assessment: Assessment where students evaluate other students' work and provide feedback.
Self-Assessment: Students evaluate their own learning and provide feedback to improve their progress.
"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..."