Differentiate the types of assessment tools

Formative Assessment

Summative Assessment

What?

What?

How?

Give students more ownership

Why?

It refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of students comprehension, learning need and academic progress during a lesson, unit or course.

It is used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period (at the end of project, unit, course, semester, program or school year.

Assessing student's learning progress

Assessing the effectiveness of the TL activities.

Identify student with learning problems

To ensure that it is safe to advance the learning content

Change your own mindset to that of a learner to model the change for students

Make space for student reflections

Strength and weakness of the TL development

Create learning goals and success criteria

Why?

How?

Use a rubric or Table of Specifications

Design clear, effective questions

to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.

Assess comprehensiveness

Make parameters clear

Consider blind grading