Activity 10

April 16th, 2012

Assessment Types and Procedures

Assessment can be divided into three stages: baseline assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment .

• BASELINE ASSESSMENT: establishes the "starting point" of the student´s undertanding.
• FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: provides information to help guide the instruction throughout the unit,
• SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: informs  both the student and the teacher about the level of conceptual understanding and performance capabilities that the student has achieved.

Some formats, and the stages of assessment in which they most likely would occur, are shown in the table.