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CTET 1 Mar 2026 Paper 1 English, Question 91

Topic: Assessment in language

Q91

A teacher of class III gives her sudents unseen passage worksheets, writing tasks, picture description activities, recitation and storytelling by them across the term. She has recorded the performance of the learners to include in the overall performance assessment of the learners. This record of assessment is known as :

  1. (1) Portfolio
  2. (2) Summative assessment
  3. (3) Formative assessmentCorrect answer
  4. (4) Performance

Solution.

CBSE answer: (3)

Answer: (3) Formative assessment

  1. The teacher assesses the children through many activities spread across the term, not in one end-of-term test.
  2. She records how each child performs in worksheets, writing, picture description, recitation and storytelling, and these records feed into the overall result.
  3. Ongoing, activity-based assessment during the term, recorded by the teacher, is formative assessment.
  4. Summative assessment comes at the end of a term, so option 2 does not fit.

Trap: (1) can be defended, since a portfolio also gathers work across the term; but the stem stresses the teacher's ongoing record of performance used for assessment, which is formative assessment.