Formative and summative assessment
- 1. Assessment Formative and Summative Dr. Ritu Tripathi Chakravarty
- 4. Key terms
- 6. What is Assessment? 6 The word ‘assess’ comes from the Latin verb ‘assidere’ meaning ‘to sit with’. In assessment one is supposed to sit with the learner This implies it is something we do ‘with’ and ‘for’ students and not ‘to’ students (Green, 1999).
- 7. Definition • Assessment is the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skill, attitudes, and beliefs. 7
- 8. • Assessment in education is the process of gathering, interpreting, recording, and using information about pupils’ responses to an educational task. (Harlen, Gipps, Broadfoot, Nuttal,1992) 8
- 9. Assessment should: Relate to regular performance Gather from interdisciplinary sources Consider all aspects of the student's life
- 10. Types of Assessment 10 Formative (Assessment for Learning) Summative ( Assessment of Learning)
- 11. “When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative assessment; when the customer tastes the soup, that’s summative assessment.” Paul Black
- 12. Formative assessment (FA) • The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.
- 13. Need of Formative Assessment • help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work • help faculty recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately
- 14. Examples of Formative Assessment -draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a topic. -submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a lecture -In-class discussions -Homework assignments
- 15. Summative assessment (SA) • The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.
- 16. • Examples of summative assessments include: • a midterm exam • a final project • a paper • a final exam • A final Presentation • Standardized Tests