Systematic Process To Continuously Gather Evidence And Provide Feedback About Learning While Instruction Is Under Way (Heritage, Kim, Vendlinski, & Herman, 2009) Formative Assessment Is A Planned Process In Which Teachers Or Students Use Assessment-based Evidence To Adjust What They’re Doing (Popham, 2008) It monitors progress Provides frequent feedback Assessments happens while learning is still underway Throughput the semester Ongoing classroom process Collection Of Practices That All Leads To Student Learning Improvement Tool For The Teachers To Determine What They Need To Do To Move The Learner Forward A Technique To Help The Students Enhance Learning Formative Assessment A Key To Success. Monitor Learning Progress During Instruction

1. Types Of Assessment With
Respect To Instruction.
Formative Assessment
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EDUCATIONIST

2. Types Of Assessment
• Formative Assessment
• Summative Assessment
• Diagnostic Assessment
• Placement Assessment

3. Formative Assessment
Systematic Process To Continuously Gather Evidence
And Provide Feedback About Learning While
Instruction Is Under Way (Heritage, Kim, Vendlinski,
& Herman, 2009)
Formative Assessment Is A Planned Process In Which
Teachers Or Students Use Assessment-based
Evidence To Adjust What They’re Doing (Popham,
2008)

4. What Is FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
• Assessments At The Beginning Or During Instruction
• The Main Purpose Is To Improve Instruction And Student
Learning
• Monitor Learning Progress During Instruction
• Instructional correctives should be delivered differently with how
the lesson was previously delivered (Black & William, 2009)
• Formative assessment is assessment FOR learning; as its focus is
on future achievements.

5. • What Makes Formative Assessment Formative Is That It Is
Immediately Used To Make Adjustments To Help Students
Learn The Lessons Better.
• Refers To What Happens On A Daily Basis In The
Classroom
• Assessments Happens While Learning Is Still Underway
• This Type Of Assessment Is NOT About
Accountability.............It Is About Getting Better!!
• Students Know Where They Are At Instructionally And
Where They Need To Go

6. • It monitors progress
• Provides frequent feedback
• Assessments happens while learning is still
underway
• Throughput the semester
• Ongoing classroom process

7. Advantages of FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR
TEACHERS
• Helps Identify Students Who Are Struggling With
Particular Tasks Or Misconceptions
• Help Teacher In Decision Making And Improved
Instruction
• Promotes Student Motivation And Self- Awareness

8. ADVANTAGES OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR
STUDENTS
• Provide Feedback To Students So They Can Improve Their
• Performance And Increased Their Confidence
• Encourages Students To Engage In More Complex
Thinking And
• Problem Solving.
• Develop An Ability To Assess Their Own Work And Peers

9. Disadvantages Of FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
• Be Time–consuming
• Be Likely To Need Different Kinds Of 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

10. Conclusion
• Collection Of Practices That All Leads To Student Learning
Improvement
• Tool For The Teachers To Determine What They Need To
Do To Move The Learner Forward
• A Technique To Help The Students Enhance Learning
• Formative Assessment A Key To Success.
• Monitor Learning Progress During Instruction