What does assessment mean?
Word: Assessment
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Assessment means a careful judgement of how good, big or serious something is, or a test that shows how much someone has learnt.
Synonyms: review, appraisal
How do you spell assessment?
Syllables: as - sess - ment
Tricky part: There are two pairs of double s: as and sess. Students usually drop one of the pairs.
Watch out for: assesment, asessment
Memory tip: Count them before you write: assessment holds four s's, set out as two pairs.
Assessment in a sentence
Example 1: Our English assessment is on Friday, so I am revising tonight.
Example 2: The doctor made a quick assessment of Arjun's twisted ankle.
Example 3: Teachers use each assessment to see which lessons need more practice.
Fun Fact
Assess comes from a Latin word meaning to sit beside. The idea is of someone sitting next to a person to weigh up their work.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
assess____
a) mint
b) mend
c) ment
d) mant
Show answer
c) ment. Assess takes ment to name the act of assessing.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) vocabulery
b) assessment
c) grammer
d) dictionery
Show answer
b) assessment. Grammar ends in ar, dictionary in ary, and vocabulary also in ary.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
assessment
a) celebration
b) invitation
c) admission
d) evaluation
Show answer
d) evaluation. An evaluation weighs up how good something is, just like an assessment.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
nsmesaetss
a) assignment
b) assortment
c) amazement
d) assessment
Show answer
d) assessment. Assortment needs an o and an r, assignment an i and a g, and amazement a z.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Your teacher sets an assessment on fractions. What is it?
a) a test of what you have learnt
b) a longer lunch break
c) a holiday from school
d) a trip to the zoo
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a) a test of what you have learnt
2. After the cyclone, officials made an assessment of the damage. What did they do?
a) hid the damage
b) repaired every house
c) moved to another town
d) checked how bad it was
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d) checked how bad it was
