A visual explanation of summative assessment

1. Summative Assessment
What is it and what does it look like?
By Karen Groves

2. What is it?
• Summative assessment
is an assessment of
learning.
• An indication of what
the has student learned
during the course of the
unit or entire grading
period
• Always formal

3. What does it look like?

4. and this
• Summative Assessment
is used to:
Measure performance
Indicates which students will
move on to the next level
Effects the awarding of
certificates and degrees
Award advancement to
employees in the
workplace

5. In education it ultimately looks like
this:

6. Photo Credits:
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