Summartive Assessment Analysis

Formative and Summative Assessment in the Classroom Summary Formative assessment is primarily used to educate and enhance a child’s performance by testing how much that child is learning. The formative assessments allow teachers to take feedback and improve the child’s learning and instruction (Dixson, 2016, p. 154). Formative assessment can also help in preparation of summative assessments (Dixson, 2016, p. 154). Formative assessments can occur in two ways spontaneous or planned. A spontaneous, formative assessments can be performed in three different ways: first when a teacher reads misunderstanding in the body language of students during a class session and queries the student about her understanding, second when a teacher calls on
Unlike formative assessments, summative assessments are not given as much, they are usually given at the end of a unit or period of instruction, and there is usually no more further instruction on the subject that was assessed. The commonly seen summative assessments are final exams, state tests, college entrance exams, final performances, and term papers (Dixson, 2016, p. 156). Summative assessments are often times used as entrance exams, like in elementary and middle school, they are often times used to determine if a child should move on to the next grade level. In high school, summative assessments are used to give awards or scholarships, and also to determine college acceptance (Dixson, 2016, p.
I really like the idea of using formative assessments to see if the way I am teaching my students is actually working. I think it is important to use them because if there is a child who doesn’t understand what is being taught, then the teacher needs to address the problems that the child is having before allowing that child to take a summative exam (Dixson, 2016, p. 154). I think I would like to use both spontaneous and planned formative assessments in my classrooms because I think that they can both be beneficial at the right times. I think I would like using spontaneous, formative assessment when doing whole group learning, but I think planned formative assessment is more concrete and easier to use (Dixson, 2016, p.