Effective assessment:

1. Assesses what is actually taught
2. Provides information for improving student learning
3. Focuses on the process as well as on the products of instruction
4. Actively involves both teachers and students
5. Uses multiple and varied measures
6. Is carried out at various points during the term of instruction
7. Provides useful, timely feedback to those being assessed and those most
   affected — the students and teachers
8. Is an intrinsically educational activity — one that reinforces and furthers the teaching and learning goals it focuses on

Reproduced with the author's permission from a handout from a Workshop on Classroom Research and Classroom Assessment, University of California, Berkeley, August, 1991.