Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Summative or Formative Assessment

Assessing students is very important in order to take certain decisions toward the students. However, the tool we use might differ. Many never use any tool except the paper test one. Also, many use summative evaluation only; they don’t take in to consideration the students’ work in class. They don’t even ask them any tasks to do, or if they did many teachers would not take them in to consideration in taking the final grade for the students. In my opinion, formative assessment is important as the summative one. Students’ development in class should be taken into consideration. It is not fair for students working all the period of learning and the day of the exam they were sick or had a problem they would fail and the careless ones succeed and get a better grade just because they studied for the final exam. What do you think? Is this right? Do you think formative assessment is important too?

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