Name of Reporter: Marlo Kyn Bunda

Topic: Various Tools in Assessment

Variety of Assessment instruments or tools when assessing student learning
outcomes.
1. Objective Examinations (e.g. multiple choice, true/false, matching, simple
recall). The advantage in using this type is that teachers are familiar with it,
although constructing high quality test questions may be difficult.
2. Essay Examinations allow for student individuality and expression although
it may not cover an entire range of knowledge.
3. Written Work (e.g. reports, papers, research projects, reviews, etc.). This
type allows learning in the process as well as in the completion of the
process. The disadvantage is that plagiarism may occur and written work is
difficult to quantify.
4. Portfolio Assessment may either be longitudinal portfolio which contains
reports, documents and professional activities compiled over a period of time,
or best-case/thematic portfolio which is specific to a certain topic or theme.
5. Assessment Rubrics is an authentic tool which measures students work. It
is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a students performance based on a
full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score. Authentic
assessment tool like rubric allows students to perform real-world tasks which
are either replicas or simulations of the kind of situation encountered by adult
citizen, consumers or professionals. Rubrics are used to assess non-objective
test performance like psychomotor tests and written reports.
a. Holistic Rubric covers the instrument as a whole; students receive an
over-all score based on a pre-determined scheme.
b. Dimensional/Analytical Rubric yields sub-scores for each dimension,
as well as a cumulative score which is the sum either weighted or
unweighted. A dimensional rubric utilizes multiple indicators or quality
for academic tasks that involve more than one level of skill or ability.
6. Competencies/Skills Assessment from Beginner to Proficiency Level. Skills
acquisition undergoes phases from beginner to proficiency level.
Other Assessment Tool Types:
1. Checklist An assessment guideline listing skills, behaviors, or
characteristics to help guide and record teacher observations of students as
they perform certain tasks. There are also student checklists that can be used
by students for self-assessment purposes.
2. Oral Fluency Assessment An informal assessment of reading to
determine oral reading errors or miscues
3. Project/Demonstration Independent work created by the student or a
group of students.
4. Journal A notebook in which a student can write a spontaneous response to
literature and/or assessment of personal progress with reading skills and
strategies.
It is clear that different kinds of information must be gathered about students by
using different types of assessments. The types of assessments that are used will

measure a variety of aspects of student learning, conceptual development, and skill

acquisition and application. The use of a diverse set of data-collection formats will
yield a deeper and more meaningful understanding of what children know and are
able to do, which is, after all, the primary purpose of assessment.