Types of assessment
Assessment is the process of gathering data. More specifically, assessment is the ways instructors gather data about their teaching and their students’ learning
2. Formative Assessment
1. Diagnostic Assessment
3. Summative Assessment 
Diagnostic assessment can help you identify your students’ current knowledge of a subject, their skill sets and capabilities, and to clarify misconceptions before teaching takes place
Types of Diagnostic Assessments
Pre-tests (on content and abilities)
Self-assessments (identifying skills and competencies)
Discussion board responses (on content-specific prompts)
Interviews (brief, private, 10-minute interview of each student)
Types of Formative Assessment
• Observations during in-class activities; of students non-verbal feedback during lecture
• Homework exercises as review for exams and class discussions)
• Reflections journals that are reviewed periodically during the semester
• Question and answer sessions, both formal—planned and informal—spontaneous
• Conferences between the instructor and student at various points in the semester
• In-class activities where students informally present their results
• Student feedback collected by periodically answering specific question about the instruction and their self-evaluation of performance and progress
Types of Summative Assessment
• Examinations (major, high-stakes exams)
• Final examination (a truly summative assessment)
• Term papers (drafts submitted throughout the semester would be a formative assessment)
• Projects (project phases submitted at various completion points could be formatively assessed)
• Portfolios (could also be assessed during it’s development as a formative assessment)
• Performances
• Student evaluation of the course (teaching effectiveness)
• Instructor self-evaluation
Summative assessment takes place after the learning has been completed and provides information and feedback that sums up the teaching and learning process. Typically, no more formal learning is taking place at this stage, other than incidental learning which might take place through the completion of projects and assignments.
Formative assessment provides feedback and information during the instructional process, while learning is taking place, and while learning is occurring. Formative assessment measures student progress but it can also assess your own progress as an instructor.
• Rubrics
Background knowledge survey; ungraded quiz
References:
Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center. (2015). Formative and Summative Assessment. July 2019, de Northern Illinois University. Retrieved from: https://www.niu.edu/facdev/_pdf/guide/assessment/formative%20and_summative_assessment.pdf
By: Rojas, Olivia