ASSESSMENT APPROACHES.

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INTRODUCTION
• Assessment performance refers to the day-to-day activities which are both
authentic and engaging, aimed to demonstrate a person’s ability to grapple with
a discipline’s central challenge in a real-life context. Individuals in the academic
field such as students, administrators, policymakers, parents, as well as educators
possess distinct ideas concerning assessment strategies. Some believe that the
traditional methods are more super while the other group thinks that the non-
traditional assessment strategies are superior.
• Assessment involves several distinct methods and techniques that are used to
collect information during different times and in different settings. The paper is
written to inform on different traditional and non-traditional assessment methods,
including their strengths and weaknesses and the effect they have on learners.

TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT METHODS
• The most common traditional assessment methods are:
• true/false tests
• short answers
• multiple-choice tests
• essays.

1. True/False Tests
Advantages
• Questions have simple structures
• It is a good point for a student to begin to learn writing questions
• Time-efficient during administration and scoring.
• Easy to sample more information from a lot of content
• Effective when evaluating cause-effect relations or misconceptions