Category Archives: formative assessment

Quote of the day – assessment anxiety (even for formative assessment)

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Sally Jordan

‘The formative assessment for Anne was not a supportive step toward summative assessment, but a significant hurdle in its own right; a moment of judgement of her aptitude for higher education and her identity. Therefore, for Anne, the formative process … Continue reading →

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Unmarked assignments?

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Sally Jordan

Yesterday was a busy day! After the STACK webinar I jumped in my car and drove to Milton Keynes to speak at an OU meeting about assessment, this run for and by the Childhood, Youth and Education Programme. This was somewhat nerve-wracking … Continue reading →

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Formative or summative logarithms

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Sally Jordan

I’ve posted before about the fact that whilst students usually engage quite well with formative-only iCMA questions, when the going gets tough, they are inevitably more likely to guess than is the case when the mark counts. When I eventually get … Continue reading →

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Summative and formative are not opposites

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Sally Jordan

I promise that this will be my last post about the difference between summative and formative assessment per se.  It seems to be something that bothers people; maybe I’ve caught the bug! I used to imagine a continuum that had … Continue reading →

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Pedagogy and patterns

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Sally Jordan

While I’ve been absent from this blog I’ve been doing lots of analysis of student responses to our questions. More on that to follow. I’ve also been reading a variety of stuff, including the report on the  JISC-funded project ‘Scoping a vision … Continue reading →

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Why don’t the marks go up?

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Sally Jordan

Given tha amount of work that we put into formative assessment, why don’t students do better in summative assessment? This was one of the recurring themes at the EARLI/Northumbria Assessment Conference, first raised in Liz McDowell’s keynote. Liz wondered if … Continue reading →

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What is formative e-assessment and when does it happen?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Sally Jordan

I’ve just read a paper by Pachler et al (Computers & Education 54 (2010) pp715-721) which describes aspects of the JISC-funded project ‘Scoping a vision of formative e-assessment’. The paper starts by considering different perspectives on the ‘nature and value of formative … Continue reading →

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Assessment or learning?

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Sally Jordan

Before I get side-tracked down any more avenues related to assessment, I feel I should say a bit more about my choice of title for this blog. My first idea for a title was (e)assessment (f)or learning (with the bracketed ‘e’ indicating … Continue reading →

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