The document discusses different types of assessment tools used in education including achievement tests, aptitude tests, intelligence tests, questionnaires, observations, interviews, and rating scales. It provides details on what each tool measures, how it is administered, its strengths and limitations. Achievement tests measure skills and knowledge learned in a given grade level while aptitude tests assess ability to learn. Intelligence tests measure general mental ability. Questionnaires, observations, interviews, and rating scales are used to assess attitudes, behaviors, and performance.
The document discusses different types of assessment tools used in education including achievement tests, aptitude tests, intelligence tests, questionnaires, observations, interviews, and rating scales. It provides details on what each tool measures, how it is administered, its strengths and limitations. Achievement tests measure skills and knowledge learned in a given grade level while aptitude tests assess ability to learn. Intelligence tests measure general mental ability. Questionnaires, observations, interviews, and rating scales are used to assess attitudes, behaviors, and performance.
The document discusses different types of assessment tools used in education including achievement tests, aptitude tests, intelligence tests, questionnaires, observations, interviews, and rating scales. It provides details on what each tool measures, how it is administered, its strengths and limitations. Achievement tests measure skills and knowledge learned in a given grade level while aptitude tests assess ability to learn. Intelligence tests measure general mental ability. Questionnaires, observations, interviews, and rating scales are used to assess attitudes, behaviors, and performance.
learned in a given grade level, usually through planned instruction.
Achievement test scores are often used in an
educational system to determine what level of instruction for which a student is prepared. Results are generalized and replicable. Asses individual's mastery of a domain of knowledge or skill. Administered to a large group Aptitude tests determine a person's ability to learn a given set of information.
Assess logical reasoning or thinking performance.
They consist of multiple choice questions
They are strictly timed.
Attitude is a posture, action or disposition of a figure or a statue. A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways Intelligence test is often defined as a measure of general mental ability. The goal of intelligence tests is to obtain an idea of the person's intellectual potential. Measure a wide Many intelligence variety of human tests produce a single behaviours intelligence score A uniform way of Only measure a comparing a person's sample of behaviors performance or situations in which Excellent predictors intelligent behavior is of academic revealed. achievement Questionnaire Observation Interview Rating Scale A questionnaire is an instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents
It contains list of written questions that can
be completed in one of two basic ways: Open Format Questions Closed Format Questions Leading Questions Importance Questions Likert Questions Bipolar Questions Rating Scale Questions The visual study of something or someone in order to gain information or learn about behaviour, trends, or changes. Description of instructional practices.
Investigation of instructional inequities for
different groups of students.
Improvement of teachers' classroom
instruction based on feedback from individual classroom or school profiles. Data gathered can be People feel highly reliable. uncomfortable being watched less expensive It helps to make The task being observed appropriate decision is subjected to types of interruptions Some task may not be in the manner in which they are observed. A conversation in which one person (the interviewer) elicits information from another person It is carried out to Collect data – both extensively and intensively and Exchanging the data. An interview gives you insight on what the person you are interviewing thinks, or appears to be thinking. A rating scale is a tool used for assessing the performance of tasks, skill levels, procedures, processes, qualities, quantities, or end products.
Rating scale used to determine the degree to
which the child exhibits a behaviour or the quality of that behavior; each trait is rated on a continuum, the observer decides where the child fits on the scale overall rating scale There are two types of rating scales which are: 1) Numerical Rating Scales