Ten Categories of Assessment Techniques
From Classroom Assessment Techniques, Angelo &
Cross, 1993
1.
Assessing Prior Knowledge, Recall, and Understanding
Techniques in this category assess content learning ; that is, how well students are
learning the content of the particular subject they are studying.
2.
Assessing Skill in Analysis and Critical Thinking
Techniques in this category assess procedural learning ; that is, students' skills at
analyzing information or questions or problems to understand more fully or solve
more effectively.
3.
Assessing Skill in Synthesis and Critical Thinking
Techniques in this category stimulate students to create, and allow faculty to assess
original intellectual products that result from a synthesis of the course content and
the students' intelligence, judgment, knowledge, and skills.
4.
Assessing Skill in Problem Solving
Techniques in this category allow faculty to assess and promote problemsolving skills
of various kinds.
5.
Assessing Skill in Application and Performance
Techniques in this category assess conditional knowledge ; that is, students'
understanding of when and where to apply what has been learned.
6.
Assessing Students' Awareness of Their Attitudes and Values
Techniques in this category are designed to help faculty better understand and more
effectively promote the development of attitudes, opinions, values, and self awareness.
7.
Assessing Students' Self-Awareness as Learners
Techniques in this category focus on students' awareness of goals, interests, or ways
of learning.
8.
Assessing Course-Related Learning and Study Skills, Strategies, and
Behaviors
Techniques in this category focus attention on the ways students carry out their
work; that is, the actual behaviors in which they engage as they try to learn.
9.
Assessing Learner Reactions to Teachers and Teaching
Techniques in this category provide context-specific and teacher-specific feedback
that can be used to improve teaching.
10. Assessing Learner Reactions to Class Activities, Assignments, and Materials
Techniques in this category are designed to provide faculty information that will help
improve course materials and assignments.
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