The surveys evaluate student learning and content mastery at all levels: from basic knowledge and comprehension through higher levels of thinking.
Knowledge surveys can serve as both formative and summative assessment tools.
They are effective in helping:[2] A standard knowledge survey consists of questions that cover the content of a course addressing all levels of Bloom's scale of thinking.
The key feature of knowledge surveys is that students do NOT answer the questions.
For example, a typical multiple choice self-assessment of an item expressing a challenge could take the following form:[3]