1. Configurable evaluation: or preparatory evaluation, usually conducted before the start of teaching, to understand the existing level and individual differences of students, so as to arrange teaching.

2. Diagnostic evaluation: sometimes equivalent to configuration evaluation, which refers to understanding students' learning foundation and individual differences; Sometimes it refers to the evaluation of students who often show learning difficulties, mostly after formative evaluation.

3. Diagnostic evaluation method: Diagnostic evaluation refers to the definitive evaluation of the learning preparation of the evaluation object before the start of teaching activities, so as to take corresponding measures to make the teaching plan smoothly and effectively implemented. The implementation time of diagnostic evaluation is usually at the beginning of the course, the beginning of the semester, the beginning of the school year or when needed in the teaching process. There are two main functions: first, to determine the degree of students' preparation for learning; Second, properly arrange students.

4. Method of configuration evaluation: Compared with other types of talent quality evaluation, configuration evaluation has the characteristics of pertinence, objectivity, strictness and preparation.