Formative and Summative Assessment

The purpose is to monitor the learning to provide feedback about the progress of the student in order to reteach if necessary.

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

Only the teacher usually assesses which type of assessment?

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

Which type of assessment has the work assesses during the lesson?

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

Form of assessments include final test or final grade of classroom/homework

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

Work is assessed by the use of scoring criteria -- points are assigned to each question.

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

Points are assigned to each item, and grades connected with different ranges of point totals

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

In order to improve work, students may be given individual feedback, or class as a whole may be retaught; students may be grouped to be retaught portions that they have not mastered.

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

Only teachers and students are informed by results in order to reteach what has not yet been learned.

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

Needs to involve the pupils because the pupils is the person most able to improve the learning.

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both

Assessment for learning.

• Formative assessment

• Summative assessment

• Both