Every person would define assessment differently. Students see assessments as horrible assignments that determine their intelligence. To a teacher, assessment can be used in many different ways and there are also three different types of assessment. Each type serves its own purpose in the overall category of assessment.
A big question about assessment is what exactly can be assessed? Here are some things that can be assessed.
Readiness
Interest
Learning Profile
Readiness can be tested by skills, concepts, and content knowledge. Interest can be assessed by interest surveys, interest centers, and self selection. Learning profiles can be assessed by self awareness, work preferences and areas of strengths and weaknesses.
Another issue that arises is when should students be assessed? This is where the three different types of assessment really come into play. Students should be assessed before they learn something new, during the time they are learning the new topic, and after the new material has been taught to them. These three types of assessment are:
Diagnostic Assessment
Formative Assessment
Summative Assessment
Diagnostic assessment serves as a pre test. Pre assessment is any method or process used to determine a students current level of readiness or interest in order to plan for appropriate instruction. Some examples of diagnostic or pre assessment would be:
- Pre-test
- Graphing for greatness
- Inventory
- KWL Chart
- Checklist
- Observation
- Self Evaluation
- Questioning
Formative assessment is assessment that occurs during a lesson or a task. This is a process of accumulating information about a student's progress to help make instructional decisions that will improve his/her understandings and achievement levels. Some examples of formative assessment are:
- Conference
- Peer evaluation
- Questioning
- Exit Card
- Portfolio Check
- Quiz
- Journal Entry
- Self Evaluation
Summative assessment is the last part of assessment and should be done after the new material is thoroughly taught. Summative assessment is the means to determine a student's mastery and understanding of information, skills, concepts, or processes. Some examples of summative assessment are:
- Unit Test
- Performance Task
- Product/Exhibit
- Demonstration
- Portfolio Review
The majority of my elementary education tract was based off of types of summative assessment. Seeing how this has changed makes me have high hopes for the children of the future. As a teacher I will focus a lot on formative assessment because it sheds the most light on what students are really thinking and learning from information that they are gathering,
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