This document discusses formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment is used for learning and provides ongoing feedback to improve teaching and learning. Examples include in-class activities, discussions, and homework. Summative assessment evaluates learning at the end of a unit or course and includes exams, final projects, papers, and standardized tests. The key difference is that formative assessment is used during instruction and summative assessment is used after instruction to evaluate learning.

1. Assessment
Formative and
Summative
Dr. Ritu Tripathi
Chakravarty

3. Understanding Measurement
Assessment
Evaluation

4. Key terms

6. What is
Assessment?
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The word ‘assess’ comes from
the Latin verb ‘assidere’
meaning ‘to sit with’.
In assessment one is supposed
to sit with the learner
This implies it is something
we do ‘with’ and ‘for’
students and not ‘to’ students
(Green, 1999).

7. Definition
• Assessment is the process of documenting, usually
in measurable terms, knowledge, skill, attitudes,
and beliefs.
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8. • Assessment in education is the process
of gathering, interpreting, recording, and
using information about pupils’ responses
to an educational task.
(Harlen, Gipps,
Broadfoot,
Nuttal,1992)
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9. Assessment
should:
Relate to regular
performance
Gather from
interdisciplinary
sources
Consider all aspects
of the student's life

10. Types of
Assessment
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Formative
(Assessment for
Learning)
Summative
( Assessment of
Learning)

11. “When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative
assessment;
when the customer tastes the soup, that’s summative
assessment.”
Paul Black

12. Formative
assessment (FA)
• The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student
learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by
instructors to improve their teaching and by students to
improve their learning.

13. Need of Formative Assessment
• help students identify their strengths and weaknesses
and target areas that need work
• help faculty recognize where students are struggling and
address problems immediately

14. Examples of
Formative Assessment
-draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a
topic.
-submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a
lecture
-In-class discussions
-Homework assignments

15. Summative
assessment (SA)
• The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student
learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it
against some standard or benchmark.

16. • Examples of summative assessments
include:
• a midterm exam
• a final project
• a paper
• a final exam
• A final Presentation
• Standardized Tests