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Types of Assessments in Education

[Music] assessments in education there are various types of assessment and here your top examples first off formative assessments used during the teaching process and it's a quick check for understanding some examples include thumbs up thumbs down brainstorming summative assessments summative assessments measure long term academic goals and they can be used for grading mostly examples include Park and midterms finals unit tests and projects next up diagnostic assessments they are used to get prior knowledge on students and to plan future instruction an example would be a pre course test formal assessments strict and specific testing procedures and rules one example would be a standardized test such as the SAT informal assessments they are assessments that lack supporting data and use normal classroom testing procedures an exit ticket for being an example behavioral assessments may sound unusual for some teachers from the special education behavioral assessments are very common the best example is a functional behavioral assessment [Music] next up rating scales estimates to gauge the understanding on a subject or a topic by getting a scaled score rating scales are often used for professor evaluations emotional assessments these are used for more emotionally destroyed students and often written simply as observations examples include checklist and student questionnaires screening screening is usually aims to identify students in danger of failing screening is founded RTI which is a response to intervention and it's becoming more and more popular authentic assessment they are assessments designed to take place in an authentic setting like a speak to a large crowd would be an example of an authentic assessment for a public speaking class [Music] next up performance-based assessments they assess student's ability to complete work in an academic related task a task an example would be to have a student create an application for computer programming class you can also alter the way you administer an assessment whether it be individual or group sometimes students need the space also IEP s often require individualized testing for students next criterion-referenced tests CRTs students are graded based on the amount of content Day of Master CRT tests are usually created by teachers and use a simple classroom assessments and lastly [Music] norm reference assessments this assessment on the other hand is based on a comparison of students against similar demographics right now I just want to say thank you for your time and please subscribe to this channel [Music] [Music]