Formal And Formative Assessment

Assessment comes in many different forms and methods. This allows for variety and a true representation of students strengths and abilities. As the styles of assessment vary between oral, written, auditory, independent, group, and so on, so does the forms of assessments. Two distinctions between assessments are formative and informal. I believe there needs to be an equal balance of both of these to promote the fairest assessment of students’ ability. They are both different and so they both test many different things and can show different results. I would describe formative assessment as something where a student is being directly assessed and tested on knowledge of a topic. The teacher often has a plan, a direct reason for formative assessment. Formative assessments do not always have to be like this, “about guiding where instruction needs to go next. Although

2). As with informal assessment, I feel that this is more flexible and can depend on students’ response to activity, lesson, or content. This can be a faster way for the teacher to see results of the students work. Some students prefer a more planned out way of testing them where the questions are written, and they have an idea of how the assessment is planned out and taking place. Other students like anything but written, long exams and would prefer to be evaluated in other ways. I feel that in my future classroom I will vary my type of instruction and allow for all the different types of unique learners to be assessed in a variety of different ways.

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