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    Formative assessment is used during a course to determine if students have learned the material and help instructors identify areas needing clarification or re-teaching. It is not used to evaluate or grade students. Summative assessment is used at the end of a course to determine if students have met learning outcomes and is used to assign grades.

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    Formative assessment is used during a course to determine if students have learned the material and help instructors identify areas needing clarification or re-teaching. It is not used to evaluate or grade students. Summative assessment is used at the end of a course to determine if students have met learning outcomes and is used to assign grades.

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    Formative assessment is used during a course to determine if students have learned the material and help instructors identify areas needing clarification or re-teaching. It is not used to evaluate or grade students. Summative assessment is used at the end of a course to determine if students have met learning outcomes and is used to assign grades.

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    Formative and Summative Assessment

    Formative Assessment
    Formative assessment is utilized to immediately determine whether students have
    learned what the instructor intended. This type of assessment is intended to help
    instructors identify material which needs to be clarified or re-taught and should not be
    used to evaluate or grade students. Results of formative assessment can assist
    instructors to ascertain whether curriculum or learning activities need to be modified
    during a class session or before the next class meets.
    Summative Assessment
    Summative assessment is cumulative in nature and is utilized to determine whether
    students have met the course goals or student learning outcomes at the end of a
    course or program.

    University of Texas

    Formative and summative

    Assessment is often divided into formative and summative categories for


    the purpose of considering different objectives for assessment practices.

    Summative assessment - Summative assessment is generally carried


    out at the end of a course or project. In an educational setting,
    summative assessments are typically used to assign students a course
    grade.

    Formative assessment - Formative assessment is generally carried out


    throughout a course or project. Formative assessment, also referred to
    as "educative assessment," is used to aid learning. In an educational
    setting, formative assessment might be a teacher (or peer) or the
    learner, providing feedback on a student's work, and would not
    necessarily be used for grading purposes.

    Educational researcher Robert Stake explains the difference between


    formative and summative assessment with the following analogy:

    When the cook tastes the soup, that's formative. When the
    guests taste the soup, that's summative.[4]

    Summative and formative assessment are often referred to in a learning


    context as assessment of learning and assessment for learning respectively

    Wikipedia

    The word assess comes from the Latin verb assidere meaning to sit with.
    In assessment one is supposed to sit with the learner. This implies it is
    something we do with and for students and not to students (Green,
    1999).
    Formative and summative assessment are interconnected. They
    seldom stand alone in construction or effect.
    The vast majority of genuine formative assessment is informal, with
    interactive and timely feedback and response.
    It is widely and empirically argued that formative assessment has the
    greatest impact on learning and achievement.
    Summative Assessment of learning
    Generally taken by students at the end of a unit or semester to
    demonstrate the "sum" of what they have or have not learned.
    Summative assessment methods are the most traditional way of
    evaluating student work.
    "Good summative assessments--tests and other graded evaluations-must be demonstrably reliable, valid, and free of bias" (Angelo and
    Cross, 1993).

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