Formative Assessments: Formative assessments main goal and purpose is to simply monitor students learning and provide feedback that can be used to improve and shape educators teaching as well as help students learning. It is also used to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses and detect gaps in instruction.
Summative Assessments: Summative assessments main goal and purpose is to evaluate students learning at the end of an instructional unit, benchmark, course, semester, etc. These assessments are typically high stakes and have a high point value or weight. For example, exams, presentations, final papers and projects.
Summative Assessments: Summative assessments main goal and purpose is to evaluate students learning at the end of an instructional unit, benchmark, course, semester, etc. These assessments are typically high stakes and have a high point value or weight. For example, exams, presentations, final papers and projects.