The use of non-standardized assessment instruments or techniques such as analysis of work samples, observation, special projects, etc.
Teachers and students use informal assessment opportunities to make incidental and immediate judgements and provide feedback about student learning. Informal assessment is frequently used for formative assessment purposes.
Assessment procedures without rigid administration, scoring, and interpretation rules; includes criterion-referenced tests, task analysis, inventories, and so forth.
assessment of learning that is carried out using discussion with tutors or peers, self-tests and so on, in which the learner's performance may be noted but not formally graded.