The real goal of formative assessment is to monitor your students learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching. Also for your students to improve their learning. Formative assessments help your students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work and help faculty recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately Formative assessments, for the most part, are low stakes, which means that they have low or no point value. Examples of formative assessments could include asking students to: draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a topic, submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a lecture, turn in a research proposal for early feedback
The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate your students learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against a standard or different benchmarks. Summative assessments, for the most part, are high stakes, which means that they have a high point value. Examples of summative assessments include a midterm exam, a final project, a paper, etc. Information from summative assessments can be used formatively when students or faculty use it to guide their efforts and activities in subsequent courses.
The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate your students learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against a standard or different benchmarks. Summative assessments, for the most part, are high stakes, which means that they have a high point value. Examples of summative assessments include a midterm exam, a final project, a paper, etc. Information from summative assessments can be used formatively when students or faculty use it to guide their efforts and activities in subsequent courses.