Workshop: Summative assessment

Select which is NOT a characteristic of Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs):

• Learner-centered

• Oriented towards grades only

• Teacher-directed

• Tailored to specific teaching contexts

Good summative assessments are authentic require students to think like practitioners of the discipline

• True

• False

This type of authentic assessment requires students to simulate a situation:

Authentic assessment can only occur at the end of a unit plan or lesson

• True

• False

Name one of the challenges of summative assessment.

There are two main concerns when creating or evaluating a measure of summative assessment: validity and _________

For a summative assessment tool to have validity, it should effectively measure what an instructor has intended for it to measure.

• True

• False

What distinction do you make between testing and assessment? Write it in no more than 50 words.

Standardized tests are an accurate predictor of student success.

• True

• False

What type of assessment happens at the beginning of a learning experience?

• Summative assessment

• Formative assessment

• Diagnostic assessment