CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Summative assessments often have high stakes and are treated by the students as the priority over formative assessments. However, feedback from summative assessments can be used formatively by both students and faculty to guide their efforts and activities in subsequent courses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Summative feedback is essential for students to understand how far they have come in meeting the learning goals of the course, what they need further work on, and what they should study next.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Informal assessment is most often used to provide formative feedback. As such, it tends to be less threatening and thus less stressful to learners. However, informal feedback is prone to high subjectivity or bias. Formal assessment is data driven.