CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Formative assessment can involve providing feedback following an assessment, but more importantly, this feedback is delivered during instruction, allowing instructors to identify student misunderstandings and help them correct their errors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Feedback can also be formative or summative. Feedback is considered formative if learners are subsequently allowed additional opportunities to practice or resubmit their work. Summative format is provided at the end of the learning process and serves to provide students with an overall assessment of their learning.

Detailed explanation-3: -The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. More specifically, formative assessments: help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work.

Detailed explanation-4: -Feedback can take many forms such as oral, written, informal, formal, descriptive, evaluative, peer and self-assessed feedback.

Detailed explanation-5: -Valerie Shute defines formative feedback as “information communicated to the learner that is intended to modify his or her thinking or behavior for the purpose of improving learning.” Shute’s paper argues that, delivered correctly, formative feedback leads to “improved learning processes and outcomes.”