17/05/2025
Classroom Assessment: A Teacher's Guide
Classroom Assessment Techniques, also known as CATs, are strategies educators use to gauge how well students comprehend key points during a lesson or a course.
The techniques are meant to be a type of formative assessment that also allows teachers to adjust a lesson based on students' needs. CATs are most commonly ungraded and unanimous and conducted during class time.
Classroom Assessment is a systematic approach to formative evaluation, used by instructors to determine how much and how well students are learning. CATs and other informal assessment tools provide critical information during the semester regarding teaching and learning so that changes can be made as necessary.
"The central purpose of Classroom Assessment is to empower both teachers and their students to improve the quality of learning in the classroom" through an approach that is "learner-centered, teacher-directed, mutually beneficial, formative, context-specific, and firmly rooted in good practice" (Angelo & Cross, 1993, p. 4).
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By Ron Morrain
Classroom Assessment Techniques, also known as CATs, are strategies educators use to gauge how well students comprehend key points during a lesson or a course. The techniques are meant to be a type of formative assessment that also allows teachers to adjust a lesson based on students' needs.