Formative Assessments
- Part of the instruction process
- Assessment for learning
- For students to identify strengths and weaknesses
- Examples of formative assessment are: quizzes, homework, running records, checklists, writings and exit tickets.
- Occurs during learning activity
- To monitor student learning
Summative Assessments
- Assessment of learning
- What students know and do not know
- Anything that is done to test the knowledge after being taught a big unit or at the end of the year
- Examples of Summative Assessment: benchmark exams , state assessments, SAT tests, and Portfolios.
- To measure whether student has met learning outcomes and to what extent
- Students understand overall performance in a unit of study