CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Summative assessments are used to evaluate student learning, skill acquisition, and academic achievement at the conclusion of a defined instructional period-typically at the end of a project, unit, course, semester, program, or school year.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Summative assessments are often high stakes, which means that they have a high point value.

Detailed explanation-3: -Summative assessments are generally administered at the end of a unit or course.

Detailed explanation-4: -In contrast, summative assessments evaluate student learning, knowledge, proficiency, or success at the conclusion of an instructional period, like a unit, course, or program. Summative assessments are almost always formally graded and often heavily weighted (though they do not need to be).

Detailed explanation-5: -Examples of summative assessments include midterm exams, a final exam or a final project. Summative assessments are given to students at the end of an instructional period. They are evaluative rather than diagnostic and are used to measure whether a course’s learning objectives were met.