Tools of Assessment Classroom assessment tools and other informal assessment tools provide key information regarding teaching and learning so that changes can be made as necessary. The central purpose of classroom assessment is to empower both teachers and their students to improve the quality of learning in the classroom through an approach that is learner-centered, teacher-directed, mutually beneficial, formative, context-specific, and firmly rooted in good practice. It helps for assessing course-related knowledge and skills, learner attitudes, values and self-awareness and for assessing learner reactions to instruction. Tests Tests may be of different forms, such as psychological tests used to measure mental and behavioral traits, achievement tests to assess performances of students, etc. They can be used to assess both the scholastic and co-scholastic abilities of the students. The tests are those instruments by which a teacher collects information as data through v