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A Primer Diagnostic, Formative, & Summative Assessment
HomeA Primer : Diagnostic, formative , & Summative AssessmentRich ard Swearin g en , Heritag e Un iv ers ity , 2002 IntroductionAccording to Kellough and Kellough, "Teaching and learning are reciprocal processes thatdepend on and affect one another. Thus, the Assessment component deals with how wellthe students are learning and how well the teacher is teaching" (1999, p. 417). It is the" Assessment component" of teaching and learning that this paper will address. Inparticular, the distinctions between diagnostic, formative , and Summative assessmentmethods will be Purpose of AssessmentBefore addressing the different types of Assessment , it is instructive to delineateassessment s purposes.
stated, "When the cook tastes the soup, that’s formative assessment; when the customer tastes the soup, that’s summative assessment" (Formative and Summative, ¶ 1). Succinctly, summative assessment is a test, usually given at the end of a term, chapter, semester, year, or the like, the purpose of which is evaluative; in addition, high-stakes
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