Formative vs. Summative Assessments

You need a way of assessing how your students are learning throughout your new unit. You decide to create a _______.

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

At the end of each unit, your principal would like to see data on how much knowledge your students have retained with the use of the new curriculum map to guide your units. You need to develop a ________.

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

You have developed clusters for a difficult unit of study. You would like to create an assessment activity your students can complete that will quickly identify misconceptions and help you adjust your lesson planning throughout the unit. You should develop a ________.

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

Your district would like to create an assessment that can be used to analyze student achievement across the same grade levels and content areas. Your administrators will most likely encourage the use of a ________ for this purpose.

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

You would like to determine your students' progress in learning today's lesson. You should assign a ________.

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

When creating a unit of study, you should keep the ________ in mind, so you can develop lessons in a "backwards design."

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

For this unit, you want to allow students the ability to self-assess their learning and set goals. A ________ would be the best tool.

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

For this unit, you want students to create a project that incorporates their overall learning of the unit material. A ________ would be the best assignment for this purpose.

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

Your state has a adopted a standardize test that will be used to determine promotion and retention. This test will most likely NOT be a ________.

• formative assessment

• summative assessment

In order to boost the confidence of your lower preforming students, you will most likely NOT incorporate more ________.

• formative assessments

• summative assessments