Pre-assessment or diagnostic assessment
Before creating the instruction, it’s necessary to know for what kind of students you’re creating the instruction. Your is to get to know your student’s , weaknesses and the skills and knowledge they possess before taking the instruction. Based on the data you’ve collected, you can create your instruction.
Formative assessment
It is used in the first of developing instruction. The goal is to monitor student learning to provide feedback. It helps identifying the first in your instruction. Based on this feedback you’ll know what to focus on for further expansion for your instruction.
Summative assessment
It is aimed at assessing the extent to which the most important at the end of the instruction have been reached. But it measures more:the effectiveness of learning, reactions on the instruction and the benefits on a long-term base. The long-term benefits can be determined by following students who your course, or test. You are able to see whether and how they use the learned knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Confirmative assessment
When your instruction has been in your classroom, it’s still necessary to take assessment. Your goal with those assessments is to find out if the instruction is still a success after a year, for example, and if the way you're teaching is still on point. You could say that this assessment is an extensive form of a assessment.
Norm-referenced assessment
This compares a student’s performance against an . This could be the average national norm for the subject History, for example. Other example is when the teacher compares the of his or her students against the average grade of the entire school.
Criterion-referenced assessment
It measures student’s performances against a fixed set of or learning standards. It checks what students are expected to know and be able to do at a specific stage of their education. Criterion-referenced tests are used to evaluate a specific body of knowledge or , it’s a test to evaluate the curriculum taught in a course.
Ipsative assessment
It measures the performance of a student against from that student. With this method, you’re trying to improve yourself by comparing previous results. You’re not comparing yourself against other students, which may be not so good for your .