Advantages and disadvantages

1. COMPARATIVE CHART ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF
THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ASSESSMENT
TYPE OF ASSESSMENT ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Achievement Assessment  Assess what has been
taught.
 Assess the achievement of
specific objectives.
Proficiency Assessment
 Assess what someone can
do or know in relation to the
application of the subject in
real world.
 It is done once a year which
means it cannot be a real
indicator of a student’s
academic abilities.
Norm-referencing
Assessment
 Provide information and
compare individual’s scores
to another group.
 It cannot measure students’
progress as a whole.
Formative Assessment
 It aims to improve learning  Feedback does not work at
all if the recipient does not
have a position to notice,
receive, interpret, and
integrate.
Summative Assessment
 Know if students have
learned and understood the
subject.
 Determine achievement.
 Record scores.
 Weak areas are identified.
 May promote cheating due
to high stakes nature of
assessment.
 Promote teaching to the test.