The teacher understands and uses formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and ensure the continuous intellectual, social, and physical development of the learner. Education requires that we assess the level of learning our students obtain. We can do this in many different ways, whether it is formal or informal. Formal assessments are graded and used as a measure of success the student has accomplished.
Examples are tests, quizzes, projects, or research papers.
These assessments require the teacher to use a more strict policy of evaluation. The public sector of our society requires us to make this type of assessment. They use the information gained from these assessments to evaluate teachers and the school as a whole. Informal assessments are usually not given a grade, but accomplish many of the same goals as formal assessments. The biggest difference is that they carry little or no impact on the student's grade.