Affective assessment
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What is affective assessment and why it an appropriate assessment tool? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using it?
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Benefits of affective assessment are featured in this solution. The solution discusses why it is an appropriate assessment tool. It also discusses both the advantages and disadvantages. The explanation is given in 357 words.
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An affective assessment is a tool for measuring student interest, attitudes or feelings about a certain assignment or topic. For example, The course evaluations you are sometimes asked to fill out are affective assessments anytime that ask for you subjective feelings about an instructor or the course, in general.
In the discussion of advantages, "the acquisition of information from others may be particularly beneficial when the traits being measured are displayed externally (as opposed to ones, like preferences, that are displayed internally), the qualities being assessed are less reliable ...
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