Types of Assessment
Formative and summative Assessment
SUBMITTED BY:
KUBRA MOMEN
SUBMITTED TO:
MAM FAIZA RAMZAN
COURSE:
ASSESSMENT DISABILITIES
5th Morning(A) Term-2023
Outline
Formative Assessment
Why should we use formative assessment?
Types of assessment
Advantages and disadvantages of formative
assessment
Summative assessment
Formative Assessment
On going assessments, observations,
summaries, and reviews that inform teacher
instruction and provide students feedback on
a daily basis (Fisher & Frey, 2007) support
learning during the learning process.
to measure how much our students have
learned up to a particular point in time
(Stiggins)
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Check for understanding along the way
guide teacher decision making about future
instructions
provide feedback to students so they can
improve their performance
help teachers differentiate instructions and
thus improve student achievement.
WHY SHOULD WE USE FORMATIVE
ASSESSMENT ?
The most powerful moderator in the
enhancement of achievement:
helps teachers identify the current state of
learners’ knowledge and skills
create appropriate lessons, activities and
groupings
inform students about their progress to help
them set goals
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Results of formative assessment adjust their
teaching strategies and match students with
appropriate materials and learning conditions.
Help a teacher determine:
how to group students
whether students need alternative materials
how much time to allocate to specific learning
activities
which concepts need to be re-taught to
specific students
Types of Formative Assessment
Observation of Performance
Homework Exercises
Learning/ Response logs
Projects
Self/peer assessment
6. Writer’s note book
Observation
Address a specific skill Used in skill
assessment such as team and leadership
exercises
The teacher may walk around the room as
students are engaged in an activity
Record on informal notes
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For example:
Students are working on a writing challenge
The teacher may record what is observed
Learning
Students maintain a log where they record
their learning, or respond to a lesson
regarding their understanding.
The teacher collects all or some of the logs
after students have completed a task.
Students will comment on their level of
comfort with the information, as well as what
was learned and what questions they may
still have.
Projects
Students demonstrate knowledge on a
specific set of standards by presenting
information to the entire group.
A rubric is given prior to the creation of the
presentation and the student/group is
evaluated via this document.
Further small group lessons will be created as
a result of this information.
Self/Peer Assessment
Students reflect on their learning, and assess
where they are in the continuum.
Students can also be used a peer evaluators,
explaining how they feel a product reflects
what
was expected.
Writer Note Book
Students have a 3 ring binder where they keep
all their writing, informal and final drafts. The
teacher periodically reviews select writing and
has a discussion of strengths and weaknesses.
In the back there is a two column response
page. The teacher can indicate what the
student needs to work on and then the
student indicates in future writing where this
is demonstrated.
Advantages:
For teachers:
helps identify students who are struggling
with particular tasks or operating under
misconceptions.
improved instruction that addresses student
learning fosters student motivation, on-task
behavior, and self awareness.
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For students:
offers increased feelings of confidence and
control
encourages students to engage in more complex
thinking and problem solving and to hold higher
expectations for their own learning
help students spend more time on challenging
tasks, develop an ability to assess their own work,
and become effective evaluators of the work of
their peers
Disadvantages of formative
Assessment
Be hugely time–consuming
Be likely to need different kindsof formative
assessment at different stages in students’
“learning journeys”
Be difficult to measure how best to do it with
groups of students who may be at different
stages of development.
Diagnostic Assessmnet
Just like a formative assessment, diagnostic
assessment intended to improve learners
knowledge. Besides, it looks backward rather
than looking forward. It reviews what the
learner knows and difficulty that they are
facing in learning. Not diagnosing these
difficulties could limit their participation in
learning. Often used when a problem arises
or before it.
Curriculum Based Assessment
Curriculum Based Assessment is an informal
assessment of a students performance on
class curriculum. Curriculum based
assessment can refer to nearly any
assessment that compares a students
performance to a classrooms curricular
standards or criteria. A common spelling test
is an example.
Norm-referenced Assessment
This compares a student’s performance
against and average norm. This could be the
average national norm for the subject
history, for example. Other example is when
the teacher compares the average grade of
his or her students against the average grade
of entire school.
Summative Assessment
Summative assessment
Are cumulative evaluation used to measure
growth after instruction and are generally given
at the end of a course in order to determine
whether long term goals have been met (Coffey,
2012)
Summative assessment focus on what the
student has learned at the end of a unit of
instruction or at the end of a grade level (e.g.
standard one, National Test) ( Johnson &
Jenkins, 2009).
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Summative assessment purpose is to let the
teachers and students know the level of
accomplishment attained. The final exam is
classic example (Wool folk et al 2008).
Comparing formative and summative
assessment
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