Summative Assessment

Summative Assessment

Last blog I take the formative assessment as a subject matter for that blog, and because in the other hand standing the other type of assessment, so it became an obligation to discuss the Summative assessment (or summative evaluation) which refers to the assessment of participants where the focus is on the outcome of a program. This contrasts with formative assessment, which summarizes the participants' development at a particular time. Summative assessment is widely taught in educational programs.  

The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessments may be distributed throughout a course, after a particular unit (or collection of topics) have been taught, and there are advantages to doing so. In many disciplines there has been a move away from 100% end of course assessments, to a model where summative assessments are distributed across a course, which helps to scaffold students' learning. Summative assessment usually involves students receiving a grade that indicates their level of performance and Summative assessments are weighted more than formative assessments.

There are many types of summative assessments which may include: portfolios , interviews , essays , tests , presentations , a midterm exam , A final project ,  A paper.

Information which may derived from summative assessments could be used formatively when students or faculty use it to guide their efforts and activities in subsequent courses.

From these new information and skills of how to asses the students by the style of summative assessment I get the advantage of the continuous assessment specially when applying the summative’ at the end of any unit or groups of topics, and this will be for the benefit of the learners that they will be continuously reading and answering questions and quizzes which will make them understanding the topics very well.