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Formative and Summative Assessments Formative Assessments Formative assessment comprises techniques that are used to monitor student learning and to provide ongoing feedback. The aim of formative ...

Formative Assessment Efficiency, Summative Assessment Proficiency By David Ginsburg — January 23, 2012 2 min read David Ginsburg ...

I encourage educators to think about active learning activities and to use digital teaching platforms to create engaging and effective learning experiences. As schools began to respond to the pandemic ...

Summative assessments gauge student achievement after the completion of learning activities. While many of these are common such as exams, projects and essays, there are a larger variety of ways to ...

John A. Centra, The Use of the Teaching Portfolio and Student Evaluations for Summative Evaluation, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 65, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1994), pp. 555-570 ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

The Teaching Quality Framework Initiative (TQF) has developed a toolkit of resources for departmental change efforts related to transforming teaching evaluation. This Toolkit is meant to provide ...