EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

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 assessment – evaluation – comes at the end of learning, while formative assessment provides information and support during the learning. Summative assessment aims to evaluate what students know, can do, and can articulate at a given point in time. This evaluation is reported verbally or in writing to others.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the classroom, that means formative assessments take place during a course, while summative assessments are the final evaluations at the course’s end.