<P> The term assessment is generally used to refer to all activities teachers use to help students learn and to gauge student progress . Assessment can be divided for the sake of convenience using the following categorizations: </P> <Ol> <Li> Initial, formative, summative and diagnostic assessment </Li> <Li> Objective and subjective </Li> <Li> Referencing (criterion - referenced, norm - referenced, and ipsative) </Li> <Li> Informal and formal </Li> <Li> Internal and external </Li> </Ol> <Li> Initial, formative, summative and diagnostic assessment </Li> <Li> Objective and subjective </Li>

Which type of assessment is currently the most widely used