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I really like the idea of a diagonstic assessment. This will really help an instructor anticipate the learning styles of students.
I've learned different methods of providing diagonostic assessments as well as as formative and summative assessments.
Formative and Summative assessment are very helpful, it is used as a learnng tool for both instructor and student. Facilitates the lesson planning, communicating with the student and giving proper feedback will result in improvements.
It shows just how important it is to always assess and re-assess the program to provide consistance improvement.
I learned that assessment in an educational setting is a process that uses measurable terms in order to assess knowledge, attitudes, skills, and beliefs.
I believe that in my program we could benefit from diagnostic assessments in the very begining of class. Many students come with very little computer skills for instance and knowing where they are when it comes to the basics to advanced would be very helpful. This, applied with some formative assessments during the course will definitely show us where the weak points may be while students are learning the different applications required for the course and would also help improve the summative assessments, in my opinion.
Assessment is nothing more than doing a inventory of your presentations by using many methods. Be formative where there is a collection of students advancements. Summative is more overall evaluation.
There are many ways to measure competency, each of which is empowered through the establishment of a baseline. This baseline allows professors to better prepare the course material and understand which students may be most harmonic and symbiotic.
this module I have learned the difference between a formative and a summative assessment. A formative assessment is when you take assessment of the student's learning at intervals during the course, while a summative assessment is given at the conclusion of a lesson to assess how much of the lesson the student learned.
Creating and connecting ideas and components to engage in creative thinking is a cornerstone for teaching online the student expect to be assessed so they know their progress.
Learned that "Summative assessment is assessment that is conducted at a particular point in time. It occurs at the conclusion of a lesson, project, unit, or course to determine what students know and what they do not know." and that "The outcome of summative assessments is a judgment of student competency at the end of the instructional phase with a grade earned."
I learned that we need to continually assess learning by using formative assessment. By doing so, we can determine where students are and implement strategies to help struggling students.
Hi David
Here I think you meant we need to give formative assessments regularly and not summative assessment.
Diagnostic evalustion sounds like a strong tool. I have never used it before but i am anxious to try it.
Assessment and evaluation are different Assessment is designed to improve learning and teaching while evaluation is grading it. Formative and summarize assessment are both needed for a student to be successful.
In order to maintain a continuous assessment of how students are comprehending the material you must perform summative assessments reguraly. This will help the instructor realize week areas that need more instruction for understanding in order to insure students are meeting learning objectives set for the lesson. Providing only summative assessments at lesson conclusion doesn't allow for these milestones.
In this mod we learned the difference between a formative and a summative assessment. A formative assessment is when you take assessment of the student's learning at intervals during the course while a summative assessment is given at the conclusion of a lesson to assess how much of the lesson the student learned.