CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Generally, instructors seek to incorporate both formative and summative assessments in their evaluation as they can be combined in effective ways.

Detailed explanation-2: -Formative assessments have low stakes and usually carry no grade, which in some instances may discourage the students from doing the task or fully engaging with it. The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.

Detailed explanation-3: -With formative assessments you try to figure out whether a student’s doing well or needs help by monitoring the learning process. When you use summative assessments, you assign grades. The grades tell you whether the student achieved the learning goal or not.

Detailed explanation-4: -Formative assessments differ from summative assessments in that formatives are used to better understand how the learning experience is progressing while summatives are used to track the learner’s progress at the end of a lesson.