Types
The term assessment is generally used to refer to all activities teachers use to help students learn and to gauge student progress. Though the notion of assessment is generally more complicated than the following categories suggest, assessment is often divided for the sake of convenience using the following distinctions:
- formative and summative
- objective and subjective
- referencing (criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, and ipsative)
- informal and formal.
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