What is the relationship between formative and summative assessment methods?
• As you know, formative assessment means to form or shape the program or performance while summative means to make judgments about the result. Formative and summative is more about the context in which you approach your assessment and how it influences the formation of particular tools rather than influencing the actual methods chosen. • For example, if you are conducting a semester-long program and you are engaging in formative assessment, you will want to assess your program at points in which you can still influence the end product by making changes in the program. You may have already chosen the assessment methods of surveys, observations, and interviews for your summative assessment. You can use those methods for formative assessment as well; you will just want to pay attention to the timing of the assessment and change what you are looking for. In other words, you won’t be looking for your end result half way through the semester. You will be looking to see if your students are
