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 Assessments serve several purposes, but they are most
commonly used to measure the level and depth of student
learning and skill retention. Assessments can be either
formative or summative.
 In a classroom, formative assessments are used to help
teachers plan future lessons and identify areas they have to
reteach or ways they must adjust their lessons.
 Summative assessments, like standardized achievement
tests, are used to gauge where students are at a particular
time in relation to specific learning goals.
 Tests are constructed by teachers for their classroom consumption.
Basically teacher made tests are used to evaluate the progress of the
students in learning process.
 Teachers can assess the strengths and weaknesses of students. Tests
are conducted continuously and children get immediate feedback.
 Teacher made tests devised by the teachers are to meet their various
needs and directives. Tests are not so carefully and scientifically
prepared the items of teacher made tests are seldom analyzed and
edited.
 A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or
"standard", manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the
questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations
are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard
manner.
 A standardized test is any form of test that requires all test takers to answer the
same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the
same way, and that is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it
possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of
students.
 Preparing Standardized Test, It is highly sophisticated
process requiring technical competence of high quality,
deep understanding of subject matter and an actual
experience of teaching. A single person cannot possess all
things; so we need a cooperative effort of a panel
comprising content specialists, test designers and
practicing teachers.
Teacher made test
1. Preparation and construction:
the same person as instructor,
test writer, and evaluator
2. Content and objectives
coverage: those determined by
the teacher in the classroom
3. Scoring: subjective and
usually biased and judgment
evaluative
4. Purpose and use: measures
particular objectives and is used
to make interclass comparisons
Standardized test
1. Preparation and construction:
a team of experts
2. Content and objectives
coverage: determined by
ministry of education, existing
curricula and syllabi
3. Scoring: objective, usually
machine-scored
4. Purpose and use: measures
broad objectives and is used to
make interclass, school, and
national comparisons.
Similarity

Classroom and standardized tests are similar in that they both test student

skill and knowledge at various levels.

 Differences

Some of the major differences between classroom tests and standardized

tests is the allotted time, structure and content of the tests