Assessment
Summative vs. Formative Assessment
Assessment is a complicated, yet necessary classroom process. Assessment allows teachers to understand how well students are growing as learners and to assess our own teaching practice and alter it accordingly to assist our students.
My Personal View: The more time I spend in the classroom, learning and reading about assessment I have developed a belief about assessment. I believe that it is important to show growth rather than a final grade. This is easier said than done in an academic classroom. As teachers we need to create a balance between our formative and summative assessment that can show student growth while still supplying them with that "all important "summative grade.
Summative:
Summative assessment is the way to show a students overall achievement of a particular skill or outcome, usually represented by a percentage or grade. But I feel that summative assessment shouldn't always be the end all be all of assessment and shouldn't be set in stone. I feel that all summative assessment can easily be transformed to formative by allowing students chances to go back over their work giving them multiple opportunities to show their growth, which can be more important that having a definite grade. But ultimately there needs to be some form of summative assessment whether it be at the end of the year, unit or term. Some summative assessments I enjoy using including projects, presentations, exams, questions.
Formative:
Formative assessment is a way to track student understanding, progression and overall growth throughout a year. Formative is often more important than summative assessment because it reflects which students are achieving, which students need greater help and what areas you as the teacher need to focus more on. By doing multiple formative assessments or outcome assessments you are better able to track students growth and understanding of a subject and allows you to understand which students may need more time and assistance in grasping the knowledge and skills of the subject. Some formative assessments tool that I enjoy using are whiteboards, discussion, observation and exit slips.
Assessment is a complicated, yet necessary classroom process. Assessment allows teachers to understand how well students are growing as learners and to assess our own teaching practice and alter it accordingly to assist our students.
My Personal View: The more time I spend in the classroom, learning and reading about assessment I have developed a belief about assessment. I believe that it is important to show growth rather than a final grade. This is easier said than done in an academic classroom. As teachers we need to create a balance between our formative and summative assessment that can show student growth while still supplying them with that "all important "summative grade.
Summative:
Summative assessment is the way to show a students overall achievement of a particular skill or outcome, usually represented by a percentage or grade. But I feel that summative assessment shouldn't always be the end all be all of assessment and shouldn't be set in stone. I feel that all summative assessment can easily be transformed to formative by allowing students chances to go back over their work giving them multiple opportunities to show their growth, which can be more important that having a definite grade. But ultimately there needs to be some form of summative assessment whether it be at the end of the year, unit or term. Some summative assessments I enjoy using including projects, presentations, exams, questions.
Formative:
Formative assessment is a way to track student understanding, progression and overall growth throughout a year. Formative is often more important than summative assessment because it reflects which students are achieving, which students need greater help and what areas you as the teacher need to focus more on. By doing multiple formative assessments or outcome assessments you are better able to track students growth and understanding of a subject and allows you to understand which students may need more time and assistance in grasping the knowledge and skills of the subject. Some formative assessments tool that I enjoy using are whiteboards, discussion, observation and exit slips.
Assessment Tools
Follow the links below to find some of the Assessments I have created. These have been divided based on division for simple navigation.