What is the difference between formative feedback and summative feedback?
Formative feedback occurs during an event or process. This feedback is given continuously during the event or process so to ensure that everything can run smoothly and a continuous flow of information takes place. For example, say you were a Biology teacher teaching a lesson on cells. To ensure that the students are learning what you are teaching, a teacher may do various things to check for understanding. He or she may ask the students verbally during the process of teaching a lesson if they have any specific questions on the function of an organelle in the cell, hand out a short answer worksheet to check for specific things that he or she should recap on during the next lecture, etc... Within the DID model, formative feedback is gathered while the process unfolds so that midcourse corrections can be made.
Summative feedback is built into the DID process and occurs at the end of a process. The summative feedback is a way to review the process after the event has already occurred. This basically means the summative feedback is a final check after all of the steps of the process are completed.
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This pretty much says everything relevant to the question.
ReplyDeleteYou sum everything up well. To me your post was direct. Nothing else was needed.
ReplyDeleteI would like to read some of your experience in summative feedback. You need some details in your reflection to make it 400 words.
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