Tutorial 1 : Measurement, assessment, evaluation

1. Define the following terms:i) assessment ii) evaluation

2. What is the difference between formative evaluation and summative evaluation? 3. Which of these is the BEST definition of assessment? A. Reporting what students have learned or not learned. B. Judging the quality of student performance. C. Gathering information about students to make decisions. D. Specifying what students should know and be able to do. 4. The process by which members of a class of things are differentiated is conceptualized as: A. measurement. B. evaluation. C. counting. D. quantification. 5. Which of the followings is considered as measurement rather than evaluation? A. Farid got 70% correct on spelling test. B. Umar earned a C grade with his average of 79%. C. Munirahs study habits are ineffective. D. Johan finally made his first chair in the school orchestra. 6. Which of these is NOT a characteristic of recent trends in educational assessment? A. On-going gathering of information throughout instruction. B. Publicly-known criteria for evaluating performance. C. Variety of methods used to gather information about performance. D. Gathering performance information about isolated skills or facts. 7. Which of the following is a principle of good testing? A. Test only content which you have covered in the syllabus. B. Test knowledge of content, language, and thinking skills. C. Introduce new content to test for extra general knowledge. D. Test content based on a pre-planned test specifications. 8. Which of these is NOT a purpose for doing assessment before instruction? A. Gather information for assigning grades. B. Identify students' areas of strength or weakness. C. Determine readiness for content instruction D. Provide information for planning lessons