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"assessment"

In education,the term assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate,measure,and document the academic readiness,learning progress,skills acquisition,or educational needs of students. types of assessment 1)formative assessment 2)summative assessment *formative assessment-are in process evaluations of student learning that are typically administered multiple times during a unit,course,or academic program.the general purpose of formative assessment is to give educators in process feedback about what students or learning or not learning.

advantages of formative assessment *develops knowledge *plans for future *achieves successful outcomes

disadvantages of formative assessment

*time consuming and requires resources *tiring process *develops challenges *summative assessment -the goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or bench mark.

advantages of summative assessment *they determine achievement
 * to know is students have understood

disadvantages of summative assessment *demotivates individual *disruptive *rectification is late