As teachers we have an abiding interest in efficient and effective curriculum-based (i.e. classroom) assessment. Curriculum-based assessment is both a teaching style and a set of strategies. Inherently student-centered, curriculum-based assessment provides data and information about what and how students are learning. This helps us plan and evaluate learning activities that reflect the needs of all students. The strategies that appear here are mostly simple, in-class activities that give us and our students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.

Arguably, the best assessments are those with low time requirements and high measurement qualities.

Is this possible? Is this realistic? Which assessments have these characteristics? Check out the assessments in the menu bars above to review some techniques, approaches and strategies that have (or come close to having) these characteristics.

Reference: Angelo, T.A. & Cross, P.K. (1993). Classroom Assessment Techniques (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass