Testing measures the level of skill or knowledge that has been reached.
Assessment methods
Formal assessment: are the systematic, data-based tests that measure what and how well the students have learned.
Informal assessment: spontaneous forms of assessment that can easily be incorporated in the day-to-day classroom activities and that measure the students' performance and progress
Sel assessment: volves students in evaluating their own work and learning progress
Process-oriented
Provides feedback
Ungraded
Individualized
Improves learning quality
Is ongoing,
is the collection of, analysis and interpretation of information about any aspect of a programme of education or training as part of a recognised process of judging its effectiveness.
Assessment
is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data to measure knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs