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ASSESSMENT
• NORM-REFERENCED VS CRITERION-
REFERENCED TESTS
• FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE
ASSESSMENTS
• SCHOOL-BASED ASSESSMENT
• AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
Measures broad skill areas sampled from a variety of textbooks, syllabus and
the judgments of curriculum experts.
Items are selected that discriminate between high and low achievers.
Advantages and disadvantages of
norm-referenced test
Advantages Disadvantages
Educators easy to use. An individual's grade is determined not only by
his/her achievements, but also by the
Work well in situations requiring achievements of others.
rigid differentiation among
students. No indication of prerequisite knowledge for
more advanced material has been mastered.
Generally appropriate in large
courses. Less appropriate for measuring affective and
psychomotor objectives
Encourages competition and comparison scores
CRITERION-REFERENCED TEST (CRT)
Measures a student’s performance based on the specific set of skills and
knowledge a student has mastered.
Advantage Disadvantage
Students are not competing Difficult to set a reasonable standard for
with each other. students.
Students are more likely to Criterion-referenced systems often become
actively help each other learn. fairly similar to norm-referenced systems.
A student's grade is not Absolute standards difficult to set in some
influenced by the standard of areas.
the class.
Not appropriate comparison when others are
valuable
Difference norm-referenced test and
CRITERION-REFERENCED test
Norm-Referenced Test Item Criterion-Referenced Test
To rank each student with Purpose To determine whether each
respect to the achievement of student has achieved specific
others in broad areas of skills or concepts.
knowledge. To find out how much students
To discriminate between high know before instruction begins
and low achievers. and after it has finished.
o Measures broad skill areas Content o Measures specific skills which
sampled from a variety of make up a designated
textbooks, syllabus, and the curriculum. These skills are
judgments of curriculum identified by teachers and
experts. curriculum experts.
Norm-Referenced Test Item Criterion-Referenced Test
Each skill is usually tested by Characteristics Each skill is tested by at least
less than four items. four items in order to obtain an
Items vary in difficulty. adequate sample of student
Items are selected that performance and to minimize
discriminate between high and the effect of guessing.
low achievers. The items which test any given
skill are parallel in difficulty.
o Each individual is compared Score o Each individual is compared with
with other examinees and interpretation a preset standard for acceptable
assigned a score expressed as a achievement.
percentile, a grade equivalent o A student's score is usually
score, or age equivalent. expressed as a percentage.
o Student achievement is
reported for broad skill areas.
Summarize NRT and CRT
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WHAT IS ASSESSMENT?
WHAT?
WHY?
WHEN?
HOW?
SCHOOL BASED
ASSESSMENT
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DEFINITION COGNITIVE
HOLISTIC
ASSESSMENT AFFECTIVE
PSYCHOMOTOR
inline with the
National Education
Standard and
Primary School
Curriculum (KSSR)
Philosophy
Assessment done in the school by the teachers
through various method.
School Psychometric
Assessment Assessment
Co-curricular
Centralized
Assessment
Assessment
(PAJSK)
School Assessment
•While teaching
Formative