Traditional and alternative assessment

Traditional and alternative assessment

Michelle ArrietaNRC: 18232

Traditional and alternative assessment

Michelle ArrietaNRC: 18232

Traditional assessment are conventional methods of testing that check learners’ ability to remember the things covered during an academic period. to develop productive citizens that process a body of knowledge and skills, and PRETEND to make learners learn the same things through its memorization

Multiple choice tests

are versatile due to they can be used in any subject-matter and different levels of learning

Traditional assessment toolsare methods applied to collect information in order to see how much a person knows about the content of a coursE traditional assessment tools continue to be very popular, they constitute multiple-choice tests, true/false, short answers, and essays

basic format in which a statement is presented and the learner indicates in some manner whether each of several statements is true or false

True/false tests

Short answer exams test your ability to remember and apply knowledge. They usually ask you to write one or more paragraphs, although you might be allowed to use dot points and diagrams.

brief-answer

is necessary to identify what the learner is being asked by highlighting or underlying the key words in the directions to focus on appropriate details an support the answer

Essays

permits to assess learners’ understanding of a course content and learner’s abilities to reason with their knowledge, and the ability to organize their ideas

essay-questions must be clear and specific because this way of assessing is a subjective type as there are a variety of responses, that is why grading is inconsistent, difficult and time consuming.

Alternative assessment integral aspect of the learning process because they provide explicit criteria understandable by learners so that they can see their progress in non-conventional strategies. performance-oriented, where the thinking goes, it assesses not only the right learners responses,

Alternative assessment toolstraditional assessment allow teachers to track learners performance and visualize what learners can do and cannot do through their active participation in the assessment process.

TYPES OF Alternative assessment

Journals:a reflection of daily experiences that allows learners to develop critical thinking that allows learners to be actively engaged to the learning process and course materials

Portfolios:a compendium of reports, papers and other material that documents learning experiences

OBSERVATIONS:systematic and real time planned procedure which is based on evaluating students with verbal and nonverbal behavior.

CONFERENCES:conversation that offers one to one interaction between students and teacher since both have an active interaction by asking and answering questions

Interviews:direct interaction between the teacher and learners for assessment purpose (oral production