assessment
(noun)
An appraisal or evaluation.
Examples of assessment in the following topics:
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Assessment Strategies
- Educators can use many different assessment strategies, each offering its own strengths and weaknesses, to assess their students.
- Such forms of assessments are referred to as "authentic assessment" or, more neutrally, as "alternative assessment. " Authentic assessment strategies can be used in almost any types of courses, even those that more often use traditional forms of assessment.
- No matter the type of assessment, the following two best practices should guide all instructors' assessment strategies.
- Students cannot perform well on any assessment if, in the time leading up to the assessment, there is uncertainty surrounding just what is to be known or done.
- But they should recognize that different students succeed in different assessment venues, and, thereby, to try to incorporate a few different types of assessments over the course of a unit.
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Formative Assessment vs Summative Assessment
- Formative assessment is typically contrasted with summative assessment.
- Formative assessment is not distinguished by the format of assessment, but by how the information is used.
- This assessment is also called as educative and classroom assessment.
- This type of assessment is characterized as assessment of learning and is contrasted with formative assessment, which is assessment for learning.
- Another form of assessment used in the education sector is the performance-based assessment, which is a derivative of the summative assessment, as it focuses on achievement.
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Assessment Items
- Each Boundless concept has associated assessment items that test the concept's learning objective.
- Boundless is in the process of building out comprehensive assessment banks for all our subjects.
- A fully built-out assessment bank for a given Boundless subject will include assessment items for every learning objective in the subject.
- Multiple formats of assessment items are available in Boundless content.
- Explain the role of assessment items in testing a Boundless learning objective
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Assessing an Organization's Technological Needs
- Assessing the internal technological assets and future needs of an organization prepares management for successful technology integration.
- There are various concepts that are typical of this managerial technology assessment strategy:
- Technology Roadmapping - ascertaining the trajectories of technological advancement and applying business or market needs to this assessment.
- This internal technology assessment also includes noting when and whether it is necessary to construct employee training programs for new technology.
- Apply the four strategies of information gathering and introspection that allow for effective assessment of technology needs in an organization
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Evaluating Employee Performance
- The assessment is conducted based on previously established criteria that align with the goals of the organization.
- Often, peer assessments and self-assessments are used to paint a clearer image of performance.
- Peer assessments and self-assessments are useful in capturing this data:
- Self-assessments: in self-assessments, individuals assess and evaluate their own behavior and job performance.
- 360-degree feedback: 360-degree feedback includes multiple evaluations of employees; it often integrates assessments from superiors and peers, as well as self-assessments.
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How to Assess Culture
- Outlining the way culture is assessed, the pros and cons of multiculturalism and how culture is transmitted is central to management.
- The merging of differing cultures presents a variety of implications, and requires extensive assessment and cross-cultural competencies for both individuals and businesses.
- Outlining the way in which culture is assessed, the pros and cons of multiculturalism, and the way in which culture is transmitted provides a crucial backdrop for successful management.
- Cultural assessment begins with awareness.
- The graphs in demonstrate how these cultural understandings can be coupled with language skills and an understanding of the region to create a balanced approach to assessing culture.
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Components of Project-Based Learning
- These features can be used in describing, assessing, and planning for projects.
- Innovative assessment: Just as learning is an ongoing process, assessment can be an ongoing process of documenting that learning.
- PBL requires varied and frequent assessment, including teacher assessment, peer assessment, self-assessment, and reflection.
- The last component is innovative assessment.
- PBL requires varied and frequent assessment, including teacher assessment, peer assessment, self-assessment, and reflection.
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Modular Content
- Boundless courseware is comprised of individual modules, each with a three-part structure: a learning objective, supporting digital content, and a set of assessment items.
- Each content module is organized in a three-part structure: the learning objective, the supporting text, media, and interactives, and the assessment items.
- Each concept has assessment items associated with it that test its learning objective.
- An assessment item on Boundless can be a multiple-choice question, a drag-and-drop interactive, an interactive image, or one of many other options.
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Setting Team Goals and Providing Team Feedback
- Periodic performance assessments help a team identify areas for improvement so it can better achieve its goals.
- Periodic self-assessments that consider the team's progress, how it has gotten there, and where it is headed allow the team to gauge its effectiveness and take steps to improve its performance.
- To assess its performance, a team seeks feedback from group members to identify its strengths and its weaknesses.
- Feedback from the team assessment can be used to identify gaps between what it needs to do to perform effectively and where it is currently.
- Another type of team assessment involves using diagnostic tests to identify the dominant personality traits of each member.
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Approaches to Assessing Risk
- There are numerous important and applicable approaches to assessing risk in capital budgeting.
- Since planned actions are subject to large cost and benefit risks, proper risk assessment and risk management for such actions are crucial to making them successful.
- As risk carries so many different meanings, there are many formal methods used to assess or to "measure" risk.
- One can say that in the realm of capital budgeting and corporate finance, both types of risk assessment are crucial.
- Risk can be assessed in a number of ways, and is a critical step in capital budgeting and planning, as well as project management.