Assessing Assingments

Formative versus summative. Summative are the more "popular" method of assessment; they give you a specific letter grade based on how many questions you got "right" and "wrong". Possibly the most common type of summative assessment is multiple choice tests. I made a summative assessment to go along with the lesson plan I made a few weeks back on dimensional analysis. I used Google Forms to create this quiz. Feel free to take it!

Formative assessment makes it harder to assign a letter grade at the end of the class. Formative assessments measure where students are in their learning, what they understand and what they don't. They can be used to guide the teacher as to what topics need to be discussed farther and what is sufficiently learned. I made a Google Site to create a class website where students could submit their own ideas for test questions. Add your own ideas!