For every policy that a state department education or the federal government erects in connection with or reliant
on summative assessment data, however, the longer it will take states to back off of «Measurement 2.0,» and realize the potential of formative assessment as a teaching, learning, and accountability tool.
They often happen late in the instructional process to validate (or certify) learning so the use
of summative assessment data in the classroom is more for guidance — assigning grades, promotion or graduation to the next level, credit for courses, etc..
The resulting common language of instruction provides a foundation for powerful discourse about effective teaching, instructional feedback, and the collection and use of formative and
summative assessment data across a system.
Where many cognitive approaches to learning analytics have relied on individual performance metrics and
summative assessment data, Social Learning Analytics (SLA) focus on the activities students engage in connecting with each other, forging community, and co-constructing knowledge (see Buckingham Shum & Ferguson 2012).
We analyzed formative and
summative assessment data to determine if students were making adequate progress, developed intervention plans for students not meeting expectations and created extension experiences for students exceeding expectations.
Core Practice: Assess Student Understanding to Guide Instruction • Formative and
summative assessment data are analyzed and used to plan for data - driven instruction.
Summative assessments assess how much of the content the students mastered at a certain point in time;
summative assessment data is usually an important part of the grading process.
On the modeling side, he has examined the modeling of classroom and
summative assessment data using diagnostic classification models and Bayesian networks.
Classroom or
summative assessment data that provide evidence of impact on student achievement