This document discusses summative evaluation as a crucial component of education that assesses student achievement and instructional effectiveness after a program's completion. It highlights the purposes, aims, significance, advantages, and disadvantages of summative evaluations in measuring learner success and informing curriculum and instruction quality. The document emphasizes the ethical implications and potential consequences of evaluation results on students, parents, and teachers.

2.  Name : Akhtiar Ali
 Roll No: 2K16/bedel/05
 Class : final year (iv)
 Subject name : test development and evaluation
 Presentation topic :
Summative evaluation
 Submitted to : Prof,dr Amjad ali arain
 Elsa kazi old campus faculty of education Hyderabad,
 University of Sindh Jamshoro.

3. Introduction
 Assessment and evaluation are essential components of teaching and learning.
 Without an effective evaluation program it is impossible to know whether students have
learned,whether teaching has been effective, or how best to address student learning needs.
 Summative evaluation is defined as the design of evaluation studies and the collection of
data to verify the effectiveness of instructional materials with target learners.
 Occurs after implementation
 (after program has completed ful cycle)
 Determines the effectiveness,appeal,and effiency of instruction.
 Assesses whether the instruction adequately solves the “problem” that was identified in the
needs assessment.

4. Summative evaluation
 Determines the extent to which a student has achieved the course objectives.
 Can occur during a term as well as at the end of instructin .
 Summative assessment methods are the most traditional ways of evaluating student work.
 When evaluation takes place solely at the end of a unit,it is referred to as summative evaluation.
 For example,test scores/grades are used to evaluate achievents.
 Focus on mainly the “product” rather than process.
 A summative evaluation ( sometimes referred to as external) is a method of judging the worth of a
program at the end of the program activities (summation).
 The focus is on the outcome or the final product.
 Is associated with but not limited to standardized testing.

5. Purposes Of Summative
Evaluation
 To evaluate learner success in retaining content knowledge through types of assessments
such as traditional paper and pencil tests.
 A tool used to evaluate the curriculum and training process.
 Make “go-no-go” decisions
 Keep current materials?
 Look for something better suited to meet organizations specific instruction needs?
 Summative evaluation are used to judge the impact of a plan of instruction on the
organization initial problem.

6. Aims
 To assess the learners achievement at the end of a teaching-learning process,for instaance, at the end of the
unit.
 Measures the learners attainment of specific objectives at the end of given period of time.
 Put lights on the ultimate effectiveness of the overall process or training that is carried out.
 To benefit comparison.
 To measure the effectiveness of curriculum, teaching methods and programs.
 Assess whether the project achieved its aims and objectives.
 Assess the impacts,benefits,and value of the project in the broader context.
 Identify the achievements and stimulate discussion wit the community.
 Identify areas for future development work.

7. Significance
 Doing evaluation and doing it well matters in pragmatic terms because bad products and services cost lives
and health, destroy the quality of life and waste the resources of those who cannot afford waste.
 In ethical terms,evaluation is a key to in the service of justice, in programmes as well as in personnel
evaluation. (Scriven 1991)
 The outcomes of summative evaluation decisions have serious implications.
 For students in terms of self esteem and protection of their rights to pursue a lively hood.
 For parents with regard to protection from unsafe practice .
 For teachers concerned with potential changes of unfair evaluation practices and the legal
repercussions of decisions where students are wrongly failed (or passed).

8. Advantages Of Summative
Evaluation
 Objective measure of performance.
 Freedom free active participation in discussion.
 Knowledge construction student directed discussion.
 Encourages reflective practice.
 Getting student to recognize quality of own work.
 Allows to identify own strengths and weaknesses.
 Most powerful moderator in student achievement.
 Student aware of progress.
 Student learn faster.
 Work for at risk students.

9. Disadvantages Of Summative
Evaluation
 Getting student to recognize quality of own work.
 Affected by context.
 Needs preparation.
 Enormous amount of time spent on assessment.
 May lack timely informative feedback from instractor.
 May encourage quantity rather than quality.
 Extrinsic rewards competition.
 May promote cheating due to high stakes nature of assessment.
 Tendency for over reliance on summative measures.