12 Facts About Educational assessment

Term Educational assessment is generally used to refer to all activities teachers use to help students learn and to gauge student progress.

Self-Educational assessment is a form of diagnostic Educational assessment which involves students assessing themselves.

Forward-looking Educational assessment asks those being assessed to consider themselves in hypothetical future situations.

Performance-based Educational assessment is similar to summative Educational assessment, as it focuses on achievement.

Objective Educational assessment is a form of questioning which has a single correct answer.

Objective Educational assessment is well suited to the increasingly popular computerized or online Educational assessment format.

Formal Educational assessment usually implies a written document, such as a test, quiz, or paper.

External Educational assessment is set by the governing body, and is marked by non-biased personnel.

Valid Educational assessment is one that measures what it is intended to measure.

Validity of an Educational assessment is generally gauged through examination of evidence in the following categories:.

Good Educational assessment has both validity and reliability, plus the other quality attributes noted above for a specific context and purpose.

Traditional Educational assessment practices focus in large part on the individual and fail to account for knowledge-building and learning in context.