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These are the important aspect in giving assessments in the classroom activities. The factors consist of the following assessments and its nature.

Performance Tasks
This is the complex challenges that mirror the issues and problems faced by adults. Ranging in length from short-term tasks to long-term, multistaged projects, they yield one or more tangible products and performances. They differ from academic prompts if the setting is real or simulated and it involves the kind of constraints, background “noise”, incentives and opportunities an adult would find in a similar situation. It typically requires the student to address an identified audience which is real or simulated. It is based on a specific that relates to the audience. It allows students greater opportunity to personalize the task. They are secure; the task, evaluative criteria, and performance standards are known in advance and guide student work.

Academic Prompts
It is the open-ended questions or problems that require the student to think critically, not just recall knowledge and to prepare a specific academic response, product, or performance. Such questions or problems require constructed responses to specific prompts under school and exam conditions. They are open with no single best answer or strategy expected for solving them. They involve analysis, synthesis and evaluation. It typically requires an explanation or defense of the answer given and methods used. It also requires judgment-based scoring on criteria and performance standards. It may or may not be sure. It involves questions typically only asked of students in school.

Quiz and Test Items
Familiar assessment formats consisting of simple, content-focused items that assess for factual information, concepts and discrete skill. It uses selected-response or short-answer formats. They are convergent, typically having a single, best answer. It may be easily scored using an answer key or machine. They are typically secure which is the items are not known in advance.

Informal Checks for Understanding
It is the ongoing assessments used as part of the instructional process. Examples include teacher questioning, observations, examining student work, and think alouds. These assessments provide feedback to the teacher and the student. They are not typically scored or graded.