what is assessment?

assessment as defined by the book is the process for obtaining information that is used for making decisions about students, curricula and programs, and educational policy. to better understand assessment, i have come up woth one word; evaluation. Assessments evaluate how much a student has learned and how successful or unsuccessful the teacher was in teaching the lesson. by taking the assessment the student will be able to fully comprehend how well the student understood the subject. assessment can come in various forms; worksheets, orally, essays, and even projects. teachers benefit from the assessments as well. by evaluating the scores of the students, teachers will be able to see how much of their lesson was a success and/or failure. the teacher will be able to better equip the lesson when he/she understands in what part of the lesson the student found hard to grasp.