ped 106 Flashcards
lesson 1
are techniques used to measure a student’s academic abilities, skills,
and/or fluency in a given subject or to measure one’s progress toward academic
proficiency in a specific subject area
assessment tools
It is the instrument (form, test, rubric, etc.) that is used to collect data for each outcome.
The actual product that is handed out to students for the purpose of assessing whether
they have achieved a particular learning outcome(s).
assessment tools
are often inferences
an educator draws as a function of unsystematic observations of a student’s performance
in the subject matter under consideration.
Informal assessments
are objective
measurements of a student’s abilities, skills, and fluency using screening, progress
monitoring, diagnosis, or evaluation.
formal assessments
General Principles of Testing (Ebel and Frisbie, 1999)
1 Measure all instructional objectives,
2 Cover all learning task
3 Use appropriate test items
4 Make test valid and reliable
5 Use test to improve learning
Appropriateness of
assessment tools
Objective test
subjective test
performance assessment
portfolio assessments
oral questioning
self report
observation technique
refers to the scoring, it indicates that there is only one correct answer
objective test
It permits the student to organize and present an original answer.
subjective test
It can appropriately measure learning objectives which focus on the ability of the students to demonstrate skills or knowledge in real-lifer situations.
performance assessment
It is an assessment that is based on the systematic, longitudinal
collection of student work created in response to specific, known instructional objectives and
evaluated in relation to the same criteria.
portfolio assessment
purposeful collection of students’ work
that exhibits the students’ efforts, progress and achievements in one or more areas over a period of time. It measures the growth and development of students.
portfolio
most commonly used of all forms of assessment in class
oral questioning
This is a method of collecting assessment data. The teacher will
observe how students carry our certain activities either observing the process or product.
observational technique
____ observations are planned in advance like when the teacher assess oral report or presentation
in class while
formal observations
______ observation is done spontaneously, during instruction like observing
the working behavior of students while performing a laboratory experiment.
informal observation
