Assesses students' progress and learning needs.

Assesses what students have learned.

Students are actively involved in monitoring and assessing their learning.

Assesses students' cognition about their learning.

Descriptive feedback is essential in creating learning strategies that can be translated into student action.

Continuous process.

Teachers guide students in setting learning goals.

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

A way to see necessary next steps in advancing student learning.

Students use self-assessment and teacher feedback to reflect on their learning, consolidate their understanding and work towards learning goals.

This can be graded or ungraded. Its importance lies in the fact that the feedback that students receive can help them improve their performance in future assessments.

Assists teachers to use evidence of student learning to assess student proficiency against learning goals and objectives.

Demonstrates whether or not students have met curriculum outcomes.

Allows teachers to differentiate instruction by continuously checking where each student is in relation to the curriculum outcomes.

Uses a task or an activity for the purpose of determining student progress during a unit or block of instruction.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Has students focus on the task and their learning (not on getting the right answer).

Tests, portfolios, exhibitions, performances, presentations, simulations.

Helps students learn to be critical assessors who make sense of information, relate it to prior knowledge, and use it for new learning.

Quizzes, conversations, learning logs, and observations.