Week 12 material: Formative Assessment

There ate more Types of Assessment to check teaching and learning. Teachers can use formative throughout the learning process; formative assessments seek to determine how students are progressing through a specific learning goal. The diagnostic is at the beginning of the school year, or the beginning of a new unit of study, a diagnostic test attempts to quantify what students already know about a topic. Summative is used at the end of the year or unit; summative assessments assess a student’s mastery of a topic after different stage of instruction. These tests measure students against a national “norm” or average in order to rank students against each other. Such as the SAT, ACT, the state Basic Skills Test, and other major state standardized tests are norm-referenced. These tests called Norm-referenced tests. Criterion-referenced tests can measure student performance against a standard or specific goal. Unit and chapter tests as usually criterion-referenced.

Formative Assessment check students comprehension of the topics which they are learning. The result can guide teacher decision-making about next step instruction. The teacher provides feedback to students’ weakness, correct students’ mistakes and keep working together in the learning process. A formative assessment can be a simple writing assignment, Summaries and Reflections. or the Lists, Charts, and Graphic Organizers. Drawing pictures, with few words, sentences, and pictures to make connections and increase memory. A quiz, or even a short discussion in a group or with a student, and as well as some collaborative activities to assess students.

The goal of the Formative Assessment is to find out the comprehension of the subject content among in students. So keep on next step, make sure they have mastered specific target skills.

There are some Formative Assessment Technologies below:

Kahoot, PearDeck, EduCanon, Socrative, Poll Everywhere, Mastery Connect, Mentimeter.

References:

Every Teacher’s Guide to Assessment | Edudemic. http://www.edudemic.com/summative-and-formative-assessments/