Informal & Formal Assessment in Teaching Context

Informal & Formal Assessment

Introduction

For teachers, it is highly important that they assess their students learning progress from time to time throughout the academic year. These assessments help teachers in monitoring their students' progress in terms of learning and development which tell them if their students are absorbing the information which is being taught to them by their teachers. Assessments also give clear indication to teachers what subjects their students are grasping and in what subjects students need extra attention and instruction. There are fundamentally two types of assessments in the context of teaching, formal ...