Formative and summative assessments both have value in evaluating student learning and achievement. While formative assessment provides feedback to help students improve, summative assessment ensures students have mastered required skills and content. When using both, it is important to balance the time spent on each and make clear to students how each contributes to their overall evaluation. Dividing performance criteria also requires clarity around whether some elements carry more weight than others and the level of mastery expected as assessments increase in complexity.
Formative and summative assessments both have value in evaluating student learning and achievement. While formative assessment provides feedback to help students improve, summative assessment ensures students have mastered required skills and content. When using both, it is important to balance the time spent on each and make clear to students how each contributes to their overall evaluation. Dividing performance criteria also requires clarity around whether some elements carry more weight than others and the level of mastery expected as assessments increase in complexity.
Formative and summative assessments both have value in evaluating student learning and achievement. While formative assessment provides feedback to help students improve, summative assessment ensures students have mastered required skills and content. When using both, it is important to balance the time spent on each and make clear to students how each contributes to their overall evaluation. Dividing performance criteria also requires clarity around whether some elements carry more weight than others and the level of mastery expected as assessments increase in complexity.
October 19, 2015 Lingering Questions Reader Responses 9 In the instances of formative and summative judgment (pg 10), should one form of assessment grading be done before the other? How important is it for both to be used about the same amounts of time? I think its definitely important to work with the students on strengths and weaknesses, but I also see how evaluations on achievement amounts are also important. Does one form relate to students more? Or does one leave students feeling more insecure?
When dividing performance criteria into separate sections, do we
tell our students that one is more important than the other? Or so we just mention them separately? What about when the performances get more in depth? Should the students have all the skills nailed down?