Reflect on your learning. Unit 2A

Reflect on your learning. Unit 2.A

In this unit we have learnt to differentiate summative and formative assessment, as weel as the benefits of both. So, I will center my reflections of this unit on the differences of summative and formative assessment.

I will start with my own definition which I have built from the new knowledge that I have gotten in the assessment´s subject:

-Formative assessment is the process to support learning and to get information about or students´ proress along the whole way. Also, it involves feedback.

-Summative assessment is the information used to verify if students have learnt. It should be measurable and it gives us possibilities of showing evidences.

Also, I have to say that the summative assessment can be a formative assessment too.

In my opinion, most of the teachers think that summative assessment is more important than formative. However, it is not true. It is because in the formative assessment the teacher assesses the progress of his students, so he can see the students´ difficulties and how they solve them (helped by the teacher). In this kind of assessment, we, teachers, have to take into account students daily tasks, effort and interest to assess them.

On the other hand, the summative assessment is the final activity that the teacher provides the students. This activity can be a game, a project, a group work or a test. This is the reason why a lot of teachers think that summative assessment is more important. A high number of teachers use a test to assess their students in the summative process. However, Time by time, I have learnt that a test is not always neccesary.

Teachers should take into account that a combination of both kind of assessment is necessary because each student fell more confortable showing their skills though a different method. For example, shy students don´t feel confortable in oral test.