Write down the advantages and disadvantages of each mode of assessment. Explain in detail the limitations of assessment.

Write down the advantages and disadvantages of each mode of assessment. 

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Assessment Methods

Different methods of assessment have different strengths and weaknesses. You can match assessment methods to different student outcomes you have specified. The table below offers several examples.
Presentations 

Best Application: Content knowledge and skills.
Advantages: Opportunities for authentic contexts. Allows students to demonstrate their work to an authentic audience. Allows for the integration of complex skills.
Disadvantages: Difficult to set up and administer, especially with a large number of students.

Written Products 
Best Application: Content knowledge. Some content skills.
Advantages: Allows students to work over an extended period of time to incorporate revisions. Allows for student craftsmanship, pride, and personal embellishment.
Disadvantages: Difficult to assess individual contributions when the product is a group product. Judging what has been learned is not always evident from looking at products.

Tests 
Best Application: Content knowledge.
Advantages: Allows for a standardized administration to large groups of students. Useful for assessing individual students.
Disadvantages: Difficult to assess skills through paper-and-pencil measures.

Self-Report 
Best Application: Habits of mind.
Advantages: Allows for teacher to assess attitudes, reflections, and thinking processes of students. Allows students to identify the benefits of project work; good for identifying unanticipated consequences.
Disadvantages: Difficult to establish reliable criteria.
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Explain in detail the limitations of assessment.

Assessment is the gathering of information in the form of data. Students' conceptual knowledge and skill levels are measured and assigned a grade in the form of a number or letter. Concepts are what students know about a topic, and skills are what students can do. An evaluation is then made as a way to judge student achievement. Administrators also equate student assessment as a method of measuring teacher accountability.

The limitations of assessment

• Assessments may have a negative effect on student motivation, particularly for students performing below grade level.
• Careless implementation of assessments may have negative consequences, especially when the needs of special education students are not considered. Using only a written formal assessment does not provide an overall picture of student achievement.
• Students that perform better with oral and visual skills or who display superior creativity are at a disadvantage. Basing teacher effectiveness on standardized test scores may encourage teachers to narrow the curriculum to teach to the test.
• While it is unclear whether alternative assessments are effective, what is clear is that this debate will not be going away any time soon.