When curriculum and assessments are selected and instructional lessons are planned and implemented, it is important for leaders, teachers and students to
understand different types of assessments that might be used.
Understanding the different types of assessments is critical to serving every student.
Not exact matches
Conducting basic skills and culinary needs
assessments to
understand the scope
of training required for
different types of food service personnel (SFAs, kitchen and cafeteria managers, and cooks and frontline staff).
These authentic
assessments showing a student's
understanding of different writing
types and craft skills can be made for a local or global audience.
Most teachers, principals, and superintendents do not believe that state and federal policymakers
understand the purpose
of different types of assessment, highlighting the need for dialogue around ESSA implementation.
In addition to
understanding the quality
of the data, it is important to
understand how
different types of assessment scores are interpreted.
Candidates
understand the uses, advantages, and limitations
of different types of formal and informal student
assessments.
«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor
understanding of the
different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination
of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated
assessments within the framework
of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the
assessment of the human influence on climate.»
To
understand and study the
different types of attachments children may have with their parents, Ainsworth and Wittig (1969) developed an
assessment technique known as «Strange Situation Classification».