1. Types Of Assessment With
Respect To Instruction.
Formative Assessment
HADEEQA WAL;EED
EDUCATIONIST

2. Types Of Assessment
• Formative Assessment
• Summative Assessment
• Diagnostic Assessment
• Placement Assessment

3. Formative Assessment
Systematic Process To Continuously Gather Evidence
And Provide Feedback About Learning While
Instruction Is Under Way (Heritage, Kim, Vendlinski,
& Herman, 2009)
Formative Assessment Is A Planned Process In Which
Teachers Or Students Use Assessment-based
Evidence To Adjust What They’re Doing (Popham,
2008)

4. What Is FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
• Assessments At The Beginning Or During Instruction
• The Main Purpose Is To Improve Instruction And Student
Learning
• Monitor Learning Progress During Instruction
• Instructional correctives should be delivered differently with how
the lesson was previously delivered (Black & William, 2009)
• Formative assessment is assessment FOR learning; as its focus is
on future achievements.

5. • What Makes Formative Assessment Formative Is That It Is
Immediately Used To Make Adjustments To Help Students
Learn The Lessons Better.
• Refers To What Happens On A Daily Basis In The
Classroom
• Assessments Happens While Learning Is Still Underway
• This Type Of Assessment Is NOT About
Accountability.............It Is About Getting Better!!
• Students Know Where They Are At Instructionally And
Where They Need To Go

6. • It monitors progress
• Provides frequent feedback
• Assessments happens while learning is still
underway
• Throughput the semester
• Ongoing classroom process

7. Advantages of FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR
TEACHERS
• Helps Identify Students Who Are Struggling With
Particular Tasks Or Misconceptions
• Help Teacher In Decision Making And Improved
Instruction
• Promotes Student Motivation And Self- Awareness

8. ADVANTAGES OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR
STUDENTS
• Provide Feedback To Students So They Can Improve Their
• Performance And Increased Their Confidence
• Encourages Students To Engage In More Complex
Thinking And
• Problem Solving.
• Develop An Ability To Assess Their Own Work And Peers

9. Disadvantages Of FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
• Be Time–consuming
• Be Likely To Need Different Kinds Of Formative
Assessment At Different Stages In Students’ “Learning
Journeys”
• Be Difficult To Measure How Best To Do It With Groups
Of Students Who May Be At Different Stages Of
Development

10. Conclusion
• Collection Of Practices That All Leads To Student Learning
Improvement
• Tool For The Teachers To Determine What They Need To
Do To Move The Learner Forward
• A Technique To Help The Students Enhance Learning
• Formative Assessment A Key To Success.
• Monitor Learning Progress During Instruction