Formative and Summative Assessment

Assessment is a very wide topic that encompasses everything from statewide tests to everyday classroom tests, and not only tests but also everyday reviewed activities. The more information we have about students, the clearer the picture teachers have about achievement or where learning gaps may occur.

There are two mayor types of assessments, which are formative and summative assessment. In this entry, you will be able to find a concept map and a video explaining what summative and formative assessments are, their similarities, their differences and some examples. We got our information from the reading "Formative & Summative Assessments" and further reasearch. 

And here is the video:

  

To summarize, formative assessments provide both students and teachers with the information they need to improve the learning process while it's happening, and they provide students with feedback rather than a grade.

And summative assessments are generally administered at the end of a unit or course. Unlike formative assessments, which may occur several times during a course or unit, summative assessments occur only a few times over the course of the academic year. A common goal of this type of evaluation is to measure the mastery of learning standards. Lastly, summative assessments always yield a grade.

My experience doing the video

This was one of the last video that I filmed for this course and it was a team-work activity so, for me, it was easier to be in front of the camera. As a learning tool, the video was interesting and kind of challenging, because we had to rehearse the content so we would be able to sound sure about what we were talking about and everyone brought something different to the task. But at the end of the day, the video was an useful and effective learning tool. 

The video was created by:

Maria Juana Reyes Parada

Adriana Aquino

Diana Jiménez López