CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Summative assessments-tests, quizzes, and other graded course activities that are used to measure student performance. They are cumulative and often reveal what students have learned at the end of a unit or the end of a course.

Detailed explanation-2: -Formative Assessment can be as informal as observing the learner’s work or as formal as a written test. Formative Assessment is the most powerful type of assessment for improving student understanding and performance.

Detailed explanation-3: -Summative assessments evaluate learning achievement, and summative-assessment results record a student’s level of mastery at a specific point in time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Taxonomies of educational objectives attempt to divide learning into three areas (cognitive, affective, and behavioral). Levels of performance required by the student for each domain are then defined and assessed through the use of rubrics.