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Formative assessment is assessment for learning, since teachers are continuously collecting data and comparing it to a targeted goal, determining how far it is from the goal, and then repeating the process. Summative assessment is assess-ment of learning and occurs at the end of a grading period. Traditional types of assessment involve selected-response tests such as multiple-choice, true/false, and matching. Authentic types of assessment require students to construct their responses and can include both products and performances. A student’s port-folio should include both types if we really want to know whether students are learning.

Th e graphic organizer in fi gure 1.1 provides a pictorial representation of the relationships between the concepts described in this chapter. It depicts that while both authentic and traditional types of assessment can be both formative and summative, the ultimate goal of all assessment is to evaluate students’ aca-demic achievement and teacher eff ectiveness.

Types of Assessment

Formative Summative

Authentic Traditional

Constructed Responses

Selected Responses

Products Performances Multiple Choice

True/False

Matching

Portfolio

Evaluation

Figure 1.1: Types of assessment.Visit www.learningsciences.com/bookresources for a reproducible version of this fi gure.

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