Assessment

What is formative assessment? What is summative assessment? How can you use these types of assessment? How can you use instructional technologies to support assessment?


Formative assessment is formal and informal assessment that teachers give out to students while they are learning to modify the teaching that is happening to help students achieve to the best of their abilities.  Summative assessment is the assessment of learning and shows teachers the development of learners across a certain amount of time.  I can use these types of assessments to monitor progress that my clients are making over certain periods of time of therapy and use them to test how much they are learning or how my therapy is effecting them.  I can use instructional technologies to administer these assessments or to motivate students to want to learn more by getting to play on the computer to fulfill an assessment.