About Assessments

In education, the term assessment refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students. For ITDA we use a dual process of Assessment (Does the student meet required industry standards?) and Evaluation (Skills testing, not just how they perform a skill but are they? "Comfortable - Confident and Competant - ITDA 3 C's process"...

There are different types of assessment in education. All assessment methods have different purposes during and after instruction. This information will tell you what types of assessment are most important during developing and implementing your instruction.  We offer below some insight into our Assessment process for our curriculum development...

Types and Levels of Assessments