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Introduction The Purpose of Assessment

HomeA Primer: Diagnostic, Formative, & Summative AssessmentRich ard Swearin g en , Heritag e Un iv ers ity , 2002 IntroductionAccording to Kellough and Kellough, "Teaching and learning are reciprocal processes thatdepend on and affect one another. Thus, the Assessment component deals with how wellthe students are learning and how well the teacher is teaching" (1999, p. 417). It is the" Assessment component" of teaching and learning that this paper will address. Inparticular, the distinctions between diagnostic, formative, and summative assessmentmethods will be Purpose of AssessmentBefore addressing the different types of Assessment , it is instructive to delineateassessment s purposes.

assessment, most consider it a distinct form of measurement (Kellough et al, 1999; McMillan, 2000). In practice, the purpose of diagnostic assessment is to ascertain, prior to instruction, each student’s strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills. Establishing these permits the instructor to remediate students and adjust the curriculum to ...

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