SAMPLE TABLE OF SPECIFICATION

TYPES OF ASSESSMENT TOOLS

1. Portfolio of Evidence.
2. Candidate tool.
3. Assessors guide.
4. Candidate Practical tool.
5. Observation checklist.
6. Assessment Plan.
7. Cutting List

Assessment Tool
An assessment tool is a technique or method of evaluating information to determine how much a
person knows and whether this knowledge aligns with the bigger picture of a theory or
framework.
Types of Assessment tools
1. Educational assessment tools.
2. Research assessment tools.
3. Human resource assessment tools.
4. Project assessment tools.
EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS

An educational assessment tool is used for evaluating students’ performance and their level of
knowledge in a particular subject. Educational assessment tools can be used during the learning
process or on an ongoing basis.

For example, in formative assessment, the teacher deploys different methods to track a student’s
performance as learning progresses. This allows the instructor to identify and fix knowledge gaps
as they move from one learning phase to another.

Examples of formative assessment tools;

1. Impromptu Quiz. After a lesson, you can ask students to take part in an impromptu quiz
to know how well they understood the course material. An easy way to do this is by
creating a short online quiz with relevant close-ended questions using Formplus.
2. Polls. A poll is a way to gather instant feedback from students as they learn by asking the
right questions. Formplus allows you to create simple and fun polls that help you to
evaluate your students’ knowledge as part of formative assessment.
With multiple form field options, you can have different types of rating questions in your
poll including heart and emoji ratings. Formplus also has an automatic poll closing
option; making it easier for you to integrate the online polls into the overall teaching and
learning process.
3. One Minute Papers. Another way to assess students’ knowledge on the go is by asking
them to create simple one-minute papers; they can do this online with Formplus. You can
create a simple 1-minute survey with open-ended questions and ask your students to
share their knowledge within a particular context.
4. Entry Slips. Before starting off on a new topic or lesson, you can ask one or more
questions to know how much the students remember from the previous lesson. You can
edit any of our online surveys and list differentiated questions for the students to respond
to.
5. Exit Slips. Exit slips are used to measure the students’ progress at the end of the lesson.
Ask learners to write some of the points they remember from the lesson on scrap paper or
create a simple online questionnaire on Formplus to collect relevant responses from
students.
If you hosted the class on e-learning platforms like Google Classroom and Edulastic, you
can track what your students know at a glance and also measure their progress, in line
with the teaching and learning goals.
6. Dipsticks. Think of these as easy and quick methods to know how well the learners
understand different concepts discussed in class. You can ask learners to write short
letters explaining core concepts to another person or do a think-pair-share exercise with a
partner.
7. Visual Exercises. Ask students to interpret core ideas from the course using simple
visual representations. They can create basic sketches of what they have learned or you
can create a simple survey and ask them to choose the most appropriate visual
representation from the image options in your Formplus form.
 8. Interviews and Focus Group. At specific intervals during the class, you can organize
quick interviews and focus groups to assess the students. These can be in the form of
casual discussions with the learners or 10-minutes structured interviews using an online
survey or questionnaire. Organizing and focus groups can provide better contexts for the
assessment.
9. Tag Feedback. This is a peer assessment method where the students evaluate and
provide feedback on each other’s performance. As students assess their peers, you gain
valuable insights into how well they understand the course material and topic(s).
Tag feedback is an effective way to get the students involved in formative assessment.
Ask learners to highlight the positive contributions of their peers, or to suggest ways to
improve the course content, teaching method, or overall classroom engagement.
10. Self-assessment. One of the best ways to conduct formative assessments is to simply ask
the students to do it themselves while you provide the needed guidance. When students
evaluate themselves, they can reflect on their learning goals and discover their strengths
and weaknesses.

Examples of Summative assessment tools

1. End-of-term Examination. A final examination or assessment is one of the most

common methods of classroom evaluation. Examinations have a simple framework—the
teacher curates relevant questions and the students respond to these questions within a
timeframe.
Instructors conduct examinations as some sort of final knowledge review of the program.
Examinations test the students’ knowledge of the subject matter and they produce
quantitative results that help you to grade your students and know how well they have
performed.
To eliminate the workload that comes with paper assessment, you conduct the evaluation
via an online test platform, examination software, or create a quiz on Formplus. The
examination questions can be close-ended, open-ended, or a mixture of both; depending
on the type of data you want to gather in the end.
2. In-class Chapter Tests. These are mini-examinations that happen at the end of a topic or
section of training. They are used to determine how well a student understands key
chapter concepts and help them prepare for the final examination at the end of the course.
Quizzes, midterm assessments, and practice tests are common examples of chapter tests.
3. Standardized Admission Tests. These tests qualify candidates for a specific program;
for instance, IELTS and TOEFL are standardized English-proficiency exams that
demonstrate a candidate’s competency in the use of the language. These tests are
organized on a large scale and they make use of explicit scoring criteria for grading.
4. Creative Portfolio. Instead of an end-of-term examination, ask students to build a
creative portfolio. A creative portfolio showcases the student’s creativity, knowledge of
the coursework, and how they have uniquely applied that knowledge.
Depending on the learning areas, a student’s portfolio can include images, infographics,
and small to medium-length texts like essays or one-pagers. As the learners build their
portfolios, they also have the opportunity to reflect on how much they have learned.
 Add the file upload field to your Formplus form to receive portfolio submissions from
your students. Students can submit files of any type and size including images, multiple
document formats, and spreadsheets, in the file upload field.
5. Oral Tests
Oral summative assessments are used to get real-time and spontaneous responses from
learners at the end of a course. The instructor can embrace structured, semi-structured, or
unstructured interview methods to grade the students and evaluate their overall
performance. Students may also partake in oral classroom presentations.
The type of interview method you choose determines the kinds of questions you will ask
during the process. A structured interview follows a defined conversational sequence that
dictates its questions and structure.
Semi-structured and unstructured interviews embrace flexibility. In a semi-structured
interview, the instructor can veer off the conversational sequence and ask spontaneous
questions. Unstructured interviews do not follow a defined conversational sequence—the
instructor can ask questions as they come, within the course’s context.
6. Hands-on Performance Tasks. These simple and creative tasks allow students to put
their knowledge to work. Hands-on performance tasks are practical, straightforward and
help the instructor to assess the students’ abilities directly.
The instructor can ask students to solve a jigsaw puzzle and as they do this, she observes
how they put a specific skill to work in the tasks. If you want to assess your students’
counting and pattern skills, you may observe how they play around with colored bricks or
cotton balls.
7. Group Projects. Getting students to execute tasks within small groups is a great way to
test their knowledge. After a training on teamwork and conflict resolution, for instance,
you should group the students, assign a task and watch how they create frameworks and
solve a specific problem.
8. Book Reports. Book reports are creative summaries that demonstrate a student’s literary
skills. These reports show how students highlight the main points of a book using the
reading and analytical skills discussed in the training or program.
Students do not have to submit their summaries using paper forms. Create a Formplus
online submission form and send out a prefilled link to everyone. This way, you can
receive and organize submissions without worrying about too much paper.
9. Formal Essays. Formal essays allow students to demonstrate their level of knowledge
about a subject matter. Essay writing is a useful skill that communicates one’s idea and
understanding of a concept. Ask your students to write essays on the core topics and
themes discussed in class.
Students can explain a concept, argue for or against a subject matter or simply narrate
their learning experience as descriptive prose.
If you want to reduce the clutter that comes with stacking lots of papers, use Formplus to
collect the essays. Ask learners to turn in their essays as file uploads in your online
submission form or they can write the essays right in the form’s long-text field.
10. Observation. This is a common method of summative assessment used in early
childhood education. The instructor incorporates 1 or more standard activities into the
student’s playtime and then observes how the learners engage in the activity.
Observing students’ behaviors during playtime gives you a birds-eye view of how well
they have assimilated knowledge from a previous lesson or class session. As you observe
them, you need to make notes on any changes you notice. Write your observations down
on a piece of paper or list them in a spreadsheet.