Hi Eric I write this as a Canadian ( British Columbian) High School Teacher, and I have recently completed a graduate degree at the University of Victoria. Assessment generally, and topics such as formative and summative, are major themes of inquiry and practice here. I believe, and this is both informal and west coast based, that individual educators in the US are very familiar with, and attempt to use formative assessment techniques, but there is huge pressure, for learners to do well on tests which are summative in nature, hangovers from "No Child Left Behind" policies.
In many areas, it seems, test results are, or have been tied to funding. It is hard to get more summative and less formative than that! On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Balqis Thaahaveettil <balk...@gmail.com>wrote: > In my country India, we usually do have a high distinction between > formative and summative evaluations in the school education while in > Higher education the boundaries diminish to great extent > > > On 3/23/12, Eric Deeson <ericdee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is a quick query, though if you'd like it to become a WikiEducator > > discussion, that's fine! > > > > For some work for the *British Journal of Educational Technology*, I have > > come across some evidence that the formative / summative assessment > > distinction is not clear in the US. I would like to pin this down > further. > > > > As far as I recall, people are aware of the distinction in the last dozen > > or so countries in which I have worked. (The last occasion I recall there > > being a problem was in Kuwait in 1991.) > > > > So ... > > > > *(a) Do you have any feel for how widespread the distinction is (or how > > widespread the ignorance of it is)?* If so, please share your feeling > with > > me. > > > > *(b) Do you believe the distinction is very clear / not very clear / > > unclear / unknown among educators in the country or region where you are > > working? *Please tell me your country / region in your reply. > > > > Very best wishes, especially if we've met and/or worked together in the > > past - Eric > > > > *(Dr) Eric Deeson: Consultancy in Education and Training Technology, > > Birmingham, UK > > Reviews Editor - British Journal of Educational Technology* > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > > To visit the discussion forum: > http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
