Summative assessment evaluates what students have learned at the end of a unit or grade level, primarily through final exams and major projects. It provides feedback on student achievement and helps assign grades, while also promoting accountability and engagement. However, it has drawbacks such as the potential for cheating, over-reliance on test results, and may encourage 'teaching to the test' practices.

1. Summative
Assessment
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EDUCATIONIST

2. Summative Assessment
• 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 (e.g. standard one, National Test) ( Johnson &
Jenkins, 2009).
• 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).

3. • A Summative Assessment/Evaluation At The End
Of A Sequence Of Instruction/Unit/Class/Program
/Semester Is Designed To Make Judgments About
Student Achievement, (E.G., Final Drafts, Tests,
Exam, Assignments, Projects, Performances)
• ▪ It Determines The Extent To Which Objectives Of
Instruction Have Been Attained And Used For
Assigning Grades And Marks And To Provide
Feedback To Students

4. • Summative Assessments (“Assessment Of
Learning”) To Measure How Much Our
Students Have Learned Up To A Particular
Point In Time
• Conducted At The End Of The Course
Unit/Semester (Final Exams)
• This Type Of Assessment Is A Successful End
Product Of The Pre-stated Objectives.

5. Example Of Summative
Assessment
• Rubrics
• ▪ Exams
• ▪ Final exams
• ▪ Term papers
• ▪ Exams
• ▪ Projects
• ▪ Portfolios
• ▪ Student evaluation
• ▪ Instructor self-evaluation

6. Advantages
• Necessary for determining student grades and Placement
• Promote teacher and student accountability
• Provides a means of evaluating instructional activities
• Encourages student activity engagement with course
material
• Objective measure of performance
• Freedom from active participation in discussion

7. Disadvantage
• Tendency for over-reliance on summative measures
• May promote cheating due to high level nature of
assessment
• Has been faulted for promoting “learning for the test
• Do not provide information for correcting errors
• May promote cheating due to high stakes nature of
assessment
• Has been criticized for promoting “teaching to the test”

8. • Formative
When the cook tastes the soup
• Summative
When the customer tastes the soup
Paul Black