Title: Exploring Relations Between Formative and Summative Assessment
Abstract: This chapter characterises the two key purposes of assessment, formative and summative, within a general model of assessment of student learning. It discusses reliability and validity issues in relation to the two purposes and considers formative and summative purposes as related and can be brought together in developing a dependable approach to summative assessment using evidence collected and used in formative assessment. The third purpose of assessment, accountability, is dealt with as a special use of summative assessment. Some examples from the ASSIST-ME project illustrate the variety of approaches to assessment and the overlapping relations between formative and summative use of assessment.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-10-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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