Assessment for Learning (AfL) describes the powerful role assessment plays in shaping how and what students learn. AfL is associated with formative placed contrast to summative of certification. This article, however, focuses on Confucian-influenced cultures finds that this summative/formative binary does not hold. While western countries embrace challenging former dominance examinations, true ...

Formative assessment is designed to provide information about students' learning to help them and their teachers to identify deficiencies and misconceptions. It differs from summative assessment, which aims to rank students according to their achievements to determine which students pass or fail or to assign grades to students. This article reports on a symposium concerned with evidence for the...

OBJECTIVE To explore how formative OSCEs influence student performance and perception when undertaking summative OSCEs. METHODS We introduced formative OSCEs for second-year medical students at a large London medical school. Examination data from both formative and subsequent summative OSCEs were analysed to determine the effect on summative OSCE performance. We gathered student perceptions u...

Summative assessments are an exercise of authority and something that pupils cannot easily appeal. The importance teachers being able to assess their correctly is consequently both a question national equivalence individual fairness. Therefore, summative assessment paramount theme in teacher education, we aimed investigate the perceptions competence student regarding common practices. study was...

BACKGROUND No validated model exists to explain the learning effects of assessment, a problem when designing and researching assessment for learning. We recently developed a model explaining the pre-assessment learning effects of summative assessment in a theory teaching context. The challenge now is to validate this model. The purpose of this study was to explore whether the model was operatio...

Written responses can provide a wealth of data in understanding student reasoning on a topic. Yet they are timeand laborintensive to score, requiring many instructors to forego them except as limited parts of summative assessments at the end of a unit or course. Recent developments in Machine Learning (ML) have produced computational methods of scoring written responses for the presence or abse...

BACKGROUND After almost a decade of implementing competency-based programs in postgraduate training programs, the assessment of technical skills remains more subjective than objective. National data on the assessment of technical skills during surgical training are lacking. We conducted this study to document the assessment tools for technical skills currently used in different surgical special...

Assessment is critical in postsecondary education, as it at all levels. Assessments are classified into four types: diagnostic, summative, evaluative, and formative. Recent trends assessment have migrated away from summative to formative evaluations. Formative evaluations help students develop expertise concentrate their schedules, ease student anxiety, instill a feeling of ownership they go, c...