Assessment for Learning
Formative and Summative
5 Key Strategies
- Clarifying, Understanding & Sharing learning intentions
- Engineering effective classroom discussions, tasks, & activities that elicit evidence of learning
- Provide feedback that moves the students forward
- Activating students as learning resources for one another
- Activating students as owner of their learning
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessments provide ongoing feedback to both students and teachers.
- Helps students identify areas that they are strong as well as weak.
- Helps teachers identify what students need help with so it can be addressed immediately.
Journals
Have students write what they have learned, what they need help understanding and what they want to learn about in upcoming lessons.
Self Assessment For Learning
Have students use their thumbs to show if the are understanding and learning what you are teaching at that moment.
Another example of Self Assessment
Have students jot down thoughts on the three items in the picture.
Summative Assessements
Summative Assessments is evaluating students at the end of a lesson to see if they meet standards.
- Helps teachers and students know what level they have accomplished
- Testing, Writing papers, final projects are all examples of summative assessments.
Effective Classroom Environment
Formative and summative can both be used to help promote effectiveness in classrooms. Teachers can establish a system for ongoing feedback such as one of the examples above. This will help the students work on areas that they are struggling with so that when it's time for summative assessments such as end of grade testing they will have had extra help on their areas of weaknesses.
Rystad, M. (2013, April 7). Assessment for learning [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcLMlY6R7RM
University, C. (2016). Formative vs Summative Assessment-Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation - Carnegie Mellon University. Cmu.edu. Retrieved 6 April 2016, from http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/basics/formative-summative.html