Summative assessment is a means to gauge, at a
particular point in time, student learning relative to content standards. This
includes tests and the end of a chapter and/or exams at the end of the semester.
Formative assessment is like practicing what you’re learning before you take a
summative assessment. This provides the teacher enough time to adjust teaching strategies
to ensure student comprehension. Both summative and formative assessments are
beneficial to teachers, students, and school districts, one just happens to be
at the end of the instruction and the other is while the instruction is being
given.
One example of a summative assessment, Strand 2, Concept
1, PO 3 of the Common Core Standards, would be to use a handout at the end of
the lesson that the students will sequence the correct order of events
independently.
One example of a formative assessment, Strand 3,
Concept 1, PO 2 of the Common Core Standards, would be to ask questions while reading
a story such as who, what, where, when, why and how.
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