ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES REFERS TO:
Understanding of assessment process
Appreciation of learning outcomes
Recognition of appropriate tools
Development of an assessment profile
Collaboration across continuum of education in test development
Implementation of a competence-based approach to assessments
Blueprint is a map and a specification for an assessment program which ensures that all aspects of the curriculum and educational domains are covered by assessment programs over a specified period of time.
Blueprinting acts as a valid tool to align objectives with assessment, helps in distribution of appropriate weightage and questions across the topics. Blueprint should be an integral part of assessment.
Standard setting is the methodology used to. define levels of achievement or proficiency and. the cutscores corresponding to those levels.