Types of Evaluation

Evaluation is one of the pillars of teaching learning process. It is practically carried out all along the academic year at different levels. Only the extent of assessment and aimed objectives vary.

The educator must administer different types of evaluation techniques on the educand to make the teaching learning experience effective. For this, awareness of the types of the evaluation is imperative.

Types of Evaluation:

Formative Evaluation:

·        This is the type of assessment done at the beginning of  the instruction.

·        It is carried out to assess the understanding of the learner on small units of  the subject.

·        The questions are in the form of essays, short, and objective types and the techniques of evaluation are technically known as unit tests, quarterly, half-yearly exams etc.

Summative Evaluation:

·        This evaluation is carried out at the end of the evaluation.

·        It is done to assess the overall performance of the learner based on the understanding of the instructions on a macro level.

·        The questions are asked in the form of essay, short and very short answer questions covering the entire syllabus of a subject.

·        Evaluation of the psychomotor domain of learning involving skills is carried out by conducting practical examinations.

Diagnostic Evaluation:

·        It is carried out all along the instruction sessions during an academic year.

·        It is done to assess the understanding of the instruction at a micro level.

·        The teacher conducts diagnostic evaluation by asking questions on the instructions delivered in the same class or the previous class.

·        The questions can be oral in nature and framed from the recently taught topics.

Prognostic Evaluation:

·        It is a prediction of the extent to which a student would perform in the near future using the present state of learning.

·        An example of this type of evaluation is entrance examinations.