Assessment for, and and of learning - Formative assessment

ASSESSMENT FOR, AND AND OF
LEARNING - FORMATIVE
ASSESSMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
ASSESSMENT................................................................................................................................3
Definition and description of key elements of formative assessment.........................................4
DESCRIPTION OF KEY ELEMENTS UNDERPINNING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT........5
Techniques helpful in implementing formative assessments......................................................6
IMPLICATION OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR STUDENTS, TEACHER AND
PARENTS........................................................................................................................................6
Impact of formative assessment on student learning .................................................................6
Role of teacher or impact on planning........................................................................................7
Actively involving student and parents ......................................................................................7
Possible challenges.....................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Assessment is important component of education process that helps in analysing
understanding the learning needs, capabilities and existing skills or knowledge that are present in
particular student. So, that alternative strategies can be used to improve its skills and knowledge
for bright future ahead or getting a better job opportunities. This report has consisted of
information related to what is assessment, formative assessment and its implication for the
student, teacher and parents.
ASSESSMENT
Assessment is the procedure of collecting and discussing the gathered information with the
help of multiple and diversified sources in order to develop a deep and detailed understanding
about the knowledge of students, the things they understand and can do according to their
perception which acts as a result of their educational experiences (Rowe, 2017). It is a systematic
basis for preparing deductions about the learning and development of the students. It is basically
reviewing the gathered information about educational programs and services that has been
undertaken with any purpose such as quality improvements, decision making as well as planning
about certain activities. It is highly beneficial for tutors as well as students in order to understand
about the exact learning of the students along with updation of understanding the exact amount
of knowledge gained by them. The benefits of doing assessments include:
 Increases student’s ability to learn, develop and engagement into certain actions which
enhances their level of understanding.
 Stronger programs and services that are self studied and can be redefined with proper
feedbacks.
 This acts as an opportunity to make necessary improvements based on accurate
evaluations of requirements.
 It enhances communication part and collaboration amongst departments along with
offices.
 It also helps to increase the accountability.
The basic purpose of assessment is to fulfil the requirements in two ways i.e. the assessment
for improvement and the assessment for accountability. Many staff members and tutors are

motivated by the benefits of the assessment for further improvements among the students. This
demonstrates the effectiveness of programs and services all across the institutions (Carless,
2017). The assessment data are of various types due to which significant decisions related to the
institutions as well as students career has been taken. Assessments within the institutions are
utilised for wide variety of reasons such as high stake assessments which are standardised tests
used for the purpose of accountability which helps the tutors to take important decisions about
students on the basis of score cards achieved in high stake tests. Next is pre assessment which
generally administered even before students start to begin their learning. These are generally
utilised to establish baseline against which educators’ measures learning progress over the course
of program. Another is formative assessments which in process help the tutors to give educators
in process feedback about exactly what students are learning or not understood so that
instructional approaches, learning material and academic support can be modified accordingly
(Jaafar and Lin, 2017). One more is summative assessments that are used to appraise the students
learning at the outcome or final results that are typically administered various times during the
complete course or program.
Some other forms of assessments are interim assessment i.e. used to evaluate where students
are in their learning process and determine whether they are going towards the right direction or
not. Another is placement assessments that are extremely helpful to place students into any
particular course or academic program (Ng, 2020). The last one is screening assessment that are
utilised in order to determine whether students may required specialised assistance or services or
whether they are ready to start the course or programs or not.
Definition and description of key elements of formative assessment
Definition of formative assessment
The basic purpose of formative assessment carried out in education is of ensuring better
establishment and understanding of the points to the students they have learnt during their
classroom studies. Therefore, monitoring of student's learning can be established along with the
provision of feedback to both the teachers and students themselves.
In the words of Grob, Holmeier and Labudde (2017), formative assessment refers to the number
of assessment procedures that aims to provide the information necessary for making adjustments
in teaching in order to improvise the learning process.