WGU-- D293 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED
A+ NEWLY UPDATED 2025
Ipsative Assessment
✔✔ Evaluates a learner’s progress by comparing their current performance to their
own past performance.
Formative Assessment
✔✔ During learning
A planned, ongoing process where instructors and students work together to gather
and use evidence of understanding in real time to guide instruction.
Summative Assessment
✔✔ After learning
Used to measure whether students have achieved the learning objectives and
reached the expected level of proficiency at the end of a course or unit.
Diagnostic Assessment
✔✔ Before learning
Designed to assess what learners already know before instruction begins.
Helps identify learning gaps and informs the creation of targeted learning
experiences.
Direct Assessment
✔✔ Measures student achievement by evaluating the actual work produced.
Examples: Quizzes, essays, projects, presentations (includes formative and
summative tools).
, Indirect Assessment
✔✔ Gathers insight through feedback and learner-related data, not direct
performance.
Examples: Attendance, time on task, surveys, login frequency.
Competency-Based Assessment
✔✔ Focuses on evaluating whether students can apply their knowledge and skills
in authentic, real-world tasks.
Comprehensive Assessment -ANSWER✔✔- Includes a variety if assessment
methods to monitor a learners academic achievement and progress.
- Ex (variety of assessments): benchmark, diagnostic, formative, and summative
Criterion-referenced assessment -ANSWER✔✔- Student is not compared with
peers, but instead against a predetermined standard, cut score, or criteria.
Norm-referenced assessment -ANSWER✔✔- Evaluates learners performance by
comparing it to the performance of others.
Reflection-focused -ANSWER✔✔- Encourages learners to reflect on past
experiences & use those insights to plan future goals.
Project-based -ANSWER✔✔- Evaluates learners through hands on projects,
offering creativity and choice.
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED
A+ NEWLY UPDATED 2025
Ipsative Assessment
✔✔ Evaluates a learner’s progress by comparing their current performance to their
own past performance.
Formative Assessment
✔✔ During learning
A planned, ongoing process where instructors and students work together to gather
and use evidence of understanding in real time to guide instruction.
Summative Assessment
✔✔ After learning
Used to measure whether students have achieved the learning objectives and
reached the expected level of proficiency at the end of a course or unit.
Diagnostic Assessment
✔✔ Before learning
Designed to assess what learners already know before instruction begins.
Helps identify learning gaps and informs the creation of targeted learning
experiences.
Direct Assessment
✔✔ Measures student achievement by evaluating the actual work produced.
Examples: Quizzes, essays, projects, presentations (includes formative and
summative tools).
, Indirect Assessment
✔✔ Gathers insight through feedback and learner-related data, not direct
performance.
Examples: Attendance, time on task, surveys, login frequency.
Competency-Based Assessment
✔✔ Focuses on evaluating whether students can apply their knowledge and skills
in authentic, real-world tasks.
Comprehensive Assessment -ANSWER✔✔- Includes a variety if assessment
methods to monitor a learners academic achievement and progress.
- Ex (variety of assessments): benchmark, diagnostic, formative, and summative
Criterion-referenced assessment -ANSWER✔✔- Student is not compared with
peers, but instead against a predetermined standard, cut score, or criteria.
Norm-referenced assessment -ANSWER✔✔- Evaluates learners performance by
comparing it to the performance of others.
Reflection-focused -ANSWER✔✔- Encourages learners to reflect on past
experiences & use those insights to plan future goals.
Project-based -ANSWER✔✔- Evaluates learners through hands on projects,
offering creativity and choice.
