Summative and Formative Assessment

Introduction

The next mind map exposes the differences between sumative and formative assessment numbering their characteristics. The information for the elaboration the present mind map was taken from the essay "Formative and Summative Assessment" by Sandra Myers.

Conclusion

When givig classes sometimes we as teachers need to know how we are going to evaluate our students and what kind of resources will help us to measure the learning that our students are receiving from the classes. We could consider summative assessment as a final overall evaluation and formative assessment as a constant evaluation of the different products.