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Assessment

Assessment is an ability of a teacher to know what all his/her students know. There are basically two types of assessment held in indian schools, Formative and Summative assessment.

Formative assessment- it was coined by Michael scrivem in the year 1967. infact he is an Australian mathematician. this assessment is used for formative type of evaluation. And it is also called diagnostic assessment.It is continuous assessment of mid-term evaluation. according to me- Formative assessment is a corrective,observative and continuous assessment of students with respect to their Academic achievements.Under this assessment a teacher has to explain to their students and has to make sure that all the concepts, topics which he has taught is understood by the student and is able as well as satisfied with the favourable feedbacks of the Students,that is to recognise that there are changes.

purpose of formative assessment-

1.To provide feedbacks to the teachers so that they can remediate students. 2.To move away from only grades to enhance self-efficiency of learners. 3.It improves students meta-cognition. 4.It fascilitates the development of self-assessment of the student. 5.It is also called Assessment for learning.

Summative assessment-

It is an assessmnet of learning as the name suggest summing up. It is actually done at the end of the assessment programme. It hasx got many purposeful names- 1.open book examination 2.class test/unit test 3.It could be multiple choice 4.Dissertation /project 5.Presentation/seminar 6.Viva/ oral examination.