Assignment 3

What is the difference between formative and summative feedback?

I think of the formative assessment as an ongoing process of improvement, whereby the teacher is allowed immediate improvement opportunities—i.e. feedback. Usually, this means addressing a student’s learning process in reference to a particular situation as it is happening. The main purpose, of course, remains to improve learning strategies –particularly as it applies to an evaluative process detached of student grading. Curriculum alignment or tools that shape professional direction often take place in this process and is usually connected to multiple learning objectives, whereby instructional quality is critically attached to the goals at hand. That is to say, objectives, the course main goals, and the impact realized by the whole are, again, immediately stressed.

On the other hand, summative assessment focuses on a retrospective evaluation of an educator’s teaching strategy. Examples involve the teaching, comprehension, and retaining of knowledge of accreditation tests. To reiterate or clarify the idea, the concept can be summed up by saying the summative program tests what was learned and how it was taught.