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Types of assessment
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Types of assessment
Formative Assessment
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Formative assessment provides feedback and information during the instructional process, while learning is taking place, and while learning is occurring.
Formative assessment is a test to identify areas that students need to improve.
At the end of the third week of the semester, you can informally ask students questions which might be on a future exam to see if they truly understand the material.
Diagnostic Assessment
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Diagnostic assessment can help the teacher identify their students’ current knowledge of a subject, their skill sets, and capabilities, and to clarify misconceptions before teaching takes place.
Knowing students’ strengths and weaknesses can help the teacher better plan what to teach and how to teach it.
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Summative Assessment
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Summative assessment takes place after the learning has been completed and provides information and feedback that sums up the teaching and learning process.
Rubrics can be given to students before they begin working on a particular project, so they know what is expected of them.
Summative assessments typically are given to students at the end of a set point during or at the end of the semester to assess what has been learned and how well it was learned.
Assessment measures if and how students are learning and if the teaching methods are effectively relaying the intended messages.
Instead of trying to differentiate between formative and summative assessments, it may be more beneficial to begin planning assessment strategies to match instructional goals and objectives at the beginning of the semester and implement them throughout the entire instructional experience.