Reintroducing AssessmentFormative and Summative Style

HES 536 – CMUWeek 2

Michelle Hiscock, Instructor

Please go through Power Point and read information presented

here and on article link presented here. When finished

with presentation there is an assignment to follow in the

Assignment tab.

Essential Question

• What are the key differences between formative and summative assessment?

Learning Targets

• I can place various types of assessments in categories within a comprehensive assessment system.

• I can identify and participate in the steps of the formative assessment process.

The Soup Analogy

When a cook tastes the soup, that’s formative: when the guests taste the soup that is summative.

-Bob Stake

Article Protocol

• The Best Value in Formative Assessment

Formative and Summative

• Formative and summative assessments are interconnected. They provide different levels of information on student leaning at different points on time.

• Genuine formative assessment is not graded, but is supported through interactive and timely feedback, giving students the opportunity to respond.

• Formative Assessment has the greatest impact on learning and achievement as supported by extensive research.

– Adapted from Ministry of Education

The Difference

• Assessment FOR learning:– How can we use

assessment to help students learn more?

– (Formative)

• Assessment OF learning:– How much have

students learned at a particular point in time?

– (Summative)

Formative Assessment Includes:

• Clarifying and sharing learning intentions (learning targets) and criteria for success prior to instruction.

• Engineering effective classroom discussions, questions, and learning tasks.

• Providing feedback the moves learners forward.• Activating students as the owners of their own

learning.• Activating students as instructional resources for

one another.

Formative Assessment

• Formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students’ achievement of intended outcomes.

Planning the Formative Assessment Process

• Before beginning a lesson, unit, or course:– What are the standards students need to know?– What curricular tools will be used (i.e. textbooks,

online resources, manipulatives)?– What summative assessments will be used to judge

student learning at the end?– What formative assessment strategies will be used to

see where students are – during the lesson, unit, or course?

– What formative strategies will be used to help students learn?

Formative Assessment Step 1:What are the standards students need to

know?Take standards and break them down into student friendly language. From the standards one would make learning

targets for each unit.

Formative AssignmentGo to Assignment tab on Black Board to

complete assignment! You will be practicing formative assessment by giving feedback on the first step of the process: What are the

standards students need to know?

The state health standards have been written in student friendly language and

need your feedback.