student assessments

Tests and grades

Student assessments are methods used to evaluate what students have learned or can do.

These range from traditional tests and exams to essays, projects, portfolios, and presentations.

Formative assessments check understanding during instruction; summative assessments measure achievement at the end: The district revised its student assessments to include more performance-based tasks.

Opposites
evaluation vs. instruction

student assessmentscurriculum

Educational program's content plan

instruction · teaching · lectures · pedagogy · classroom instruction

who is evaluated

student assessmentsteacher evaluations

Ratings of instructors

school accreditation · school inspections

formal evaluation vs. informal learning

student assessmentsdiscovery learning

Teaching through self-directed exploration

creative play · intrinsic motivation · independent reading

Family

student, assessment

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G