Is there a case for summative assessment? : September 19, 2011
I’ve written a lot on the importance of formative assessment recently and feel pretty cear in my own mind of its efficacy. In contrast I see summative assessment as existing only as an external measure of success or failure. I know it exists and I know it’s fairly important to my students’ life chances. It’s [...]
What’s the point of assessment? : August 22, 2011
Came across an interesting challenge by @purposeducation – #500words campaign, This week the topic is #purposedassess, so here goes… Everyone knows that there’s two different types of assessment, right? There’s summative assessment which is all about finding out whether students have learnt everything they’ve been taught. This is the kind of assessment that the media [...]
