Formative assessment occurs during instruction and is used to adjust teaching to meet student needs, identify misconceptions, and allow students to improve their understanding. In contrast, summative assessment occurs after instruction to evaluate learning and assign grades. Formative assessment improves student outcomes by providing feedback, while summative assessment measures growth and determines if learning objectives were achieved.

1. Formative and Summative
Assessment

2. Formative Assessment
 Systematic process to gather evidence of learning
 Students communicate their level of understanding
 During learning to allow for adjustment in teaching
in time for students to correct course
 Diagnose misconceptions

3. Formative v. Summative
Assessments
Formative Summative
 Assessment FOR
learning
 Planned and used
during instruction
 Address
misconceptions
 Assessment OF
learning
 After instruction
 Provides a grade for
students

4. Formative Assessment
 Improves student achievement/attitude/motivation
 Allows students show their level of understanding as
learning progresses
 Helps academically challenged/struggling students to
perform better
 Gives instructors the information they need to determine
what concepts should be re-taught and who is ready to
advance

6. Summative
assessment
Are cumulative evaluation used to measure growth after
instruction and are generally given at the end of a course in
order to determine whether long term goals have been met
(Coffey, 2012)
Summative assessment focus on what the student has learned at
the end of a unit of instruction or at the end of a grade level
(Johnson & Jenkins, 2009).

7. Summative
assessment
Summative assessment purpose is to let
the teachers and students know the level of
accomplishment attained. The final exam is
classic example (Woolfolk et al 2008).

8. Table comparing Formative and
Summative

9. Table comparing Formative and
Summative

10. Table comparing Formative and
Summative

11. Table comparing Formative and
Summative