In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals.

Summative assessments evaluate learning at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period. While typically used to gauge final outcomes, these assessments can also serve formative purposes, ...

Where feasible, assessments should be coordinated and jointly conducted with other actors to save resources, avoid duplication, and ensure complementarity. Different types of assessments exist to ...

With newer, technologically-enhanced item types, subject areas that may have been too difficult to formulate traditional assessments after in the past (music, art, etc.), now have a place within a ...

Suggested Citation: "2 What Does This Kind of Assessment Look Like?." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Seeing Students Learn Science: Integrating Assessment and ...

This chapter discusses the relationships between formative and summative assessments—both in the classroom and externally. In addition to teachers, site-and district-level administrators and decision ...

Further, activities, assignments and separate assessments can all serve a variety of these purposes. For example, a group research project may proceed by stages in which students are given feedback ...

Effective programme planning and design uses assessments to understand the protection issues, risks, needs, vulnerabilities and capacities of forcibly displaced and stateless people, as well as the ...