Formative and summative assessments play important roles in education. Formative assessment provides feedback during instruction to help teachers adjust their teaching and help students improve their learning. Summative assessment evaluates student learning at the end of a course. The author believes formative assessment is most important as it allows teachers to identify what students understand and don't understand to target instruction. In the next step of their assignment, the author will give a quiz to check student understanding and provide feedback before moving to the next standard.

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Assessment Matters Assignment
Mary Lee
Ed. 650
Dr. Smith
June 8, 2015

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Assessment in education is the process of documenting knowledge, skills, attitudes, and
beliefs, and” improves student’s learning”, (Allen, 2004). Assessment according to, (Newman,
2013) “Today, assessments must play a central role in shaping teaching and learning and actively
engaging students in their own learning process”. In this paper I will discuss my perspective on
the roles of assessment, the types of assessment in the classroom, ways teacher can use data from
both, and from my week four assignment I will discuss information on the next step for common
core state standards.
Analyzing the Roles of Assessment and Evaluation
Processing and analyzing the roles of assessment and evaluation in school improvement and
in measuring educational quality, assessment is the major role in how students learn, are
motivated to learn, and how teachers teach. According to (Rick Wormeli, 2010), formative
assessment is more important than summative; he states “you can learn without grades, but
feedback is essential to learning”, so more time should be given to formative feedback with
descriptive statements. Formative assessment help teachers with insight as to what students
understand, for students it helps them adjust their learning and make them responsible for their
own learning. Assessment should be embedded in the learning process, interwoven in the
curriculum and instructions, this with feedback will allow students to revise work and redo, once
summative assessment is done there can be no returning to redo it is the final progress. In roles
and assessment is schools so that quality work is establish teachers and students should have to
be accountable for their own teaching and learning. In teachers evaluation it should be set in the
framework of the systems for teachers to draw out of the data banks of assessment along with

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their goals and class based assessment build in so that the assessment will produce quality. For
poor performance outcomes should have sanctions, where the excellence should have incentives.
My Perspective of Assessment
From my point of view I believe that assessment should be aligned with the common
core standards so that the learning outcomes will be the guide for teachers to target those
skills with instructions that provide learning so that students are prepared for test, college
and careers. (Hattie, 2012) states that, “The United Kingdom Assessment Reform Group
has five requirements for assessment to improve learning, listed
1. Provide effective feedback to students
2. Active involving students in their own learning
3. Teachers should adjust teaching instructions according to assessment results
4. Recognition of influence that assessment has on the motivation and self-esteem of
students, are important factors
5. Students should to be able to assess themselves and understand how to improve
I believe that formative assessment is needed as an ongoing base for feedback that
explain, and corrects wrong information. The trends in education changes and shifts as
the world changes and need additional resources for student to progress according to the
way the global economy exist at that particular time, for example what we do in
technology in the 21st century will not suffice what will be needed in 24th century. From
my point of view students and teachers should be held equally responsible for teaching

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and learning. According to (Dr. Brain, 2011) at this present time there are three data
scores schools look at the scores of reading, math and graduation rates for success, but
three steps are needed to cultivate a thriving school, accountability, measure and value.
He further states that six items describe when a school is thriving. The six are: students
know things-academic, students can do things- creative arts, health individuals- exercise
nutritional programs, play well together in the sandbox- social skills, resilient
psychological- confidence and can resist pressures, good citizens, engage in local
communities.
Evaluate Assessment Types in the Classroom
The types of assessment are formative and summative, “Formative assessment
consists of formal and informal assessment procedures used by teachers during the
learning process, ongoing monitoring in order to modify teaching and learning activities
to improve student attainment”, (Crooks, 2001). According to, Scriven, (Tyler, Scriven
& Gagne, 1967), summative assessment “deals with the participants where they place the
focus on the outcome of the program, or the final outcome of a unit or course”. The
example of formative is quiz, concept map, an example of formative is an ACT test, or
final grade. The role that I see myself play in class is more formative, I believe if you
keep students informed of what is expected and what they are doing and need to do or
understand it can allow myself to examine my teaching style to improve and to help
students through adjusted assignments to better understand and get more practice and
become the responsible party for learning.

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Roles of Formative and Summative Assessment in Classroom
The roles of summative assessment in the classroom is given at certain times to measure what
students know and do not know not only used in standardize test but as part of the district and
classroom curriculums, at that level is an accountability measure that is used as the grading
process. Formative assessment role is incorporated in the instructional process in the classroom
practice and provide data that the teacher need to adjust teaching when students are learning, and
informs the teacher and student understanding at a point to make timely adjustments. Each
support learning by measuring them to the learning goals or outcomes to see if the results are
what is a desired result. In formative immediate feedback during the instruction and the teacher
can use the data to readjust teaching so that the students can readjust learning. In summative
assessment it is used to measure student growth after instruction and is generally given at the end
of a course in order to determine whether long term learning goals have been met, and
summative information can shape how teachers organize their curricula or what courses schools
offer their students.
Week Four Assignment Review
The next step in my assignment is to check for understanding through a quiz to make sure
student understand that particular core standard that I taught and to provide explanatory feedback
so that the student and myself will know if the skill targeted was understood, so that I can adjust
with strategies to reteach and student will assess what they learn and readjust and all will be able
to be accountable for teaching and learning before moving to the next common core standard.

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References
Crooks, T. (2001). "The Validity of Formative Assessments". British Educational Research
Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, September 13–15, 2001.
Hattie, J. (2012). Visible learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on learning.
New York, NY: Routledge
Huba, M.E. & Freed, J.E. (2000). Learner-centered assessment on college campuses:
Shifting the focus from teaching to learning. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Newman, R. (2013). Teaching and learning in the 21st century: Connecting the dots. San Diego,
CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
R. W. Tyler, R. M. Gagne, & M. Scriven (Eds.) (1967). "The methodology of evaluation".
Perspectives of curriculum evaluation. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally. pp. 39–83.
Rick Wormeli: Formative and Summative Assessment
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