Teaching Prepared by Caroline W. Ndirangu

Key words
1.  Assessment:
 is a process of gaining information about students’ learning 
and making value judgments about their progress.
2.  Evaluation
: To calculate or judge the value or degree of.
3.  Formative evaluation (internal):
 is a method of judging the worth of 
a program while the program activities are forming (in progress). The 
focus is on the process.
4.  Measurement:  
5.  Reliability
: That which may be trusted and is dependable.
6.  Standardized Tests:
 Compares the performance of every individual sub-
ject with the norm or criterion.
7.  Summative evaluation (external
): is a method of judging the worth of 
a program at the end of the program activities (summation). The focus 
is on the outcome.
8.  Test or Test item:
 assessment administered on paper intended to 
measure the learners knowledge, skills, aptitude of the content learnt
9.  Validity
: measures what it is supposed to measure.