Traditional Assessments
Disadvantages
Records knowledge or performance of the student on that particular day.
Minimal applicaiton to real life situations
Difficult to guage what the students know versus what they just guessed on.
Generally does not inform instructional practice
students do not recieve descriptive feedback
uses lower level cognitive skills
Advantages
works well for information that requires memorization or recalling of facts
Efficient
These assessments work well when an instructor needs to score them in a realitvely short amount of time. Example: when grading final exams and reporting term grades.
Can be scored by machines
very reliable
