Formative assessment is part of the instructional process; it will give you the information you need as the teacher to adjust the teaching and learning while it is happening in your classroom. These assessments help ensure your students are achieving their personal goals as well as your standard set goals for them. Formative assessment should be thought of as “practice”. The students are not graded on this and it allows you to determine the next steps in the learning process. For example say you are teaching the children how to tell time, you could use a model clock and set it to any time and have the students write the time they think it is on a personal white board. Then the class can hold up their answers. (Arizona Common Core Standards, 1. MD. Number 3) This allows you to quickly see how and if everyone understands what you’re teaching.
Summative assessments are those assessments that are given periodically to determine student progress and understanding. Summative is used at the classroom or even district level and is used and a form of accountability for teachers and students alike. An example of summative assessment would be if you had spent a week teaching students how to tell time; at the end of the week you could give each student a test covering the learned material. The big difference between formative and summative is that summative assessment takes place after your instruction while formative takes place during your instruction. However both are needed to make your classroom a successful learning environment.
Summative assesments:
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/time/time-1_TZTNQ.pdf
http://www.math-aids.com/images/telling-time-draw-hands.jpg
Infrormation retreived from:
http://www.amle.org/Publications/WebExclusive/Assessment/tabid/1120/Default.aspx
Summative assessments are those assessments that are given periodically to determine student progress and understanding. Summative is used at the classroom or even district level and is used and a form of accountability for teachers and students alike. An example of summative assessment would be if you had spent a week teaching students how to tell time; at the end of the week you could give each student a test covering the learned material. The big difference between formative and summative is that summative assessment takes place after your instruction while formative takes place during your instruction. However both are needed to make your classroom a successful learning environment.
Summative assesments:
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/time/time-1_TZTNQ.pdf
http://www.math-aids.com/images/telling-time-draw-hands.jpg
Infrormation retreived from:
http://www.amle.org/Publications/WebExclusive/Assessment/tabid/1120/Default.aspx
