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Assessment Types

It is important to define the context of assessments in the learning process. There are many styles
of online assessments and QMP offers four types of assessment to choose from when you create an assessment: quiz, test, exam, or survey.

  • Quiz is a low-stakes formative assessment used to measure a student's knowledge or skills for the purpose of providing feedback to the student about their current level of knowledge or skills. Feedback is usually provided for a quiz.
  • Test can have low to medium stakes. It is often an unmonitored assessment to measure a student's knowledge or skills for the purpose of informing the students or their teacher of their current level of knowledge or skill.
  • Exam can have medium to high stakes. As a rule, exam is a monitored summative assessment used to measure a student's knowledge or skills for the purpose of documenting their current level of knowledge or skill.
  • Survey is a low-stakes diagnostic or reaction assessment to measure the knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes of a someone for the purpose of determining needs required to fulfill a defined purpose.

The table below includes details about what functionality can be applied to each assessment type:

Assessment type Record answers Provide feedback Open access Time limit Use Questionmark Secure Anonymous results
Quiz Optional Optional Optional Optional No No
Test Yes Optional Optional Optional Optional No
Exam Yes No No Optional Optional No
Survey Yes Optional Optional Optional No Optional

The assessment type can be set at initial assessment creation only and cannot be changed afterwards. However the settings (link to 'assessment settings' here) can be changed any time as required.

The information on this page relates to QMP Guides and was last updated July 2020.

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