This document discusses the different purposes of student assessment: formative assessment provides feedback to help students improve, summative assessment evaluates student achievement and determines if they have met learning objectives to progress to the next level, assessment protects academic standards and institutional reputation, and analyzing assessment results provides feedback to teachers to evaluate and improve their instruction. Assessment serves to both evaluate students and inform teaching.

1. Purposes of Assessment

2. We measure our students learning
for a number of reasons:

3. 1. Assessment for Learning
(Formative)
• The purpose of Formative Assessment is
to provide students with feedback on
how they are going. The aim is to help
students improve their performance and
make their next piece of assessed work
better. It is developmental or formative
in nature; hence the term "Formative
Assessment".

4. • The feedback students receive is the key
component of formative assessment.
Feedback is intended to help them identify
weaknesses and build on strengths to
improve the quality of their next piece of
assessment. The focus is on comments for
improvement, not marks, and the awarding
of marks in formative assessment can
actually be counterproductive.

5. 2. Assessment for Certification
(Summative)
• Another key purpose of assessment is to
gather evidence to make a judgment about a
student's level of performance; against the
specified learning objectives.

6. • Students are usually assessed at the end of an
element of learning, such as the end of a
module, mid semester or end of semester.
They are awarded results typically as marks or
grades to represent a particular level of
achievement (high, medium, low). This
judgmental "summative" process formally
provides the evidence, to verify or "certify"
which students may progress to the next level
of their studies.

7. 3. Protect Academic Standards
• Grades from cumulative assessments are used
to certify that a person has the necessary
knowledge and skills (and can apply them
appropriately) to be awarded a qualification.
Consequently, the quality and integrity of
assessment is essential to guarantee the
credibility of qualifications and the academic
reputation of the issuing Institution.

8. • There is considerable local, national and
international concern to ensure that the ways
we protect academic standards stand up to
scrutiny.

9. 4. Feedback for Teaching
• The results from both formative and summative
assessments can help you track how your
students are going throughout your courses.
Closely looking at the results can help you
identify any patterns of difficulties or
misunderstandings students might have. This in
turn allows you alter your approach to teaching
and adjust your curriculum accordingly. For
example, you may identify that you need to offer
more detailed explanations or provide additional
resources in a particular area.

10. • We use assessment as a tool to provide
feedback to students about their learning
(Formative Assessment); as well as certifying
their level of achievement (Summative
Assessment). It is a means by which we
protect our academic standards and
institutional reputations; and a method or
evaluating and adjusting teaching.

11. Another source
also said that;

12. Early Childhood Teachers
• Identify children's skills, abilities, and needs
• Make lesson and activity plans and set goals
• Create new classroom arrangements
• Select materials
• Make decisions about how to implement learning
activities
• Report to parents and families about children's
developmental status and achievement
• Monitor and improve the teaching-learning process
• Meet the individual needs of children
• Group for instruction

13. Sources:
• http://www.education.com/reference/article/
why-assessment-important/
• http://app.griffith.edu.au/assessment-
matters/docs/introduction/purpose

14. Therefore:
• It measures student’s achievement.
• It evaluates instruction.
• It motivates learning.
• It predicts success.
• It diagnoses the nature of difficulties.

15. Thank
you!
Prepared by:
Shienna Kay Amarille BSED 404