Joe Booker

                 There are many differences between formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment occurs before or during instruction to see if students know that material they are about to learn or to see the progress of learning. When summative happens after instruction seeing if the student comprehended the material. Formative assessment is usually ungraded because students cannot be expected to be graded on something they do not know. When in summative assessment they are graded because it is how the teacher knows if the students retained the information they were taught. In formative assessment it helps the instruction by showing the teachers what they need to teach and what the children already know. In summative assessment it summarizes what the children were supposed to be learning throughout the lessons.  When I am a teacher I will make sure my students comprehend the material by using both formative and summative assessment. I will grade them on the quality of an oral presentation which will be a summative assesment. This presentation will be on the topics they did not comprehend during the formative assessment which was not graded. By making the children do a presentation on the material they did not comprehend it will force them to learn the information they present and also give me an opportunity to grade the children.