Formative and Summative Assessment Methods
Understanding assessment types and their applications.
A closer look at your course
What you’ll learn
Learning objectives drawn from the published course content.
- Distinguish uses.
- Preserve evidence scope.
- Plan responsive action.
- Specify construct.
- Map coverage.
- Audit irrelevant demands.
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- Elicit new reasoning.
- Design credible alternatives.
- Preserve ownership.
- Apply component descriptors.
- Distinguish totals/criterion.
- Retain uncertainty.
- Calculate raw agreement.
- Inspect disagreements.
- Preserve score history.
- Calculate descriptive summaries.
- Inspect component limits.
- Avoid invented classification.
- Target a gap.
- Create a response opportunity.
- Check fresh evidence.
- Preserve construct.
- Record help.
- Distinguish missing evidence.
- Bound reports.
- Separate research/local outcome.
- Retain trial scope.
- Reconcile actual time.
- Record supplied reasoning.
- Plan recovery.
- Reconcile paired criterion results.
- Label growth.
- Bound effects.
- Defend coherent assessment.
- Propagate corrections.
- Appraise traceable practice.
Inside the curriculum
Explore the published modules and lessons. Full lesson content is available through your student account, with free enrolment. Learning sequence and administrative access controls still apply.
01Purpose,Construct and Elicitation3 lessons
Connect intended use to fair reasoning evidence.
- Defining Assessment Through Its Intended Use
- Building a Coverage Blueprint for the Intended Interpretation
- Eliciting Reasoning Rather Than Recognition Alone
02Scoring,Moderation and Data Interpretation3 lessons
Make component judgements consistent and summaries bounded.
- Applying Component Descriptors Without Hiding a Critical Gap
- Inspecting Disagreements Without Manufacturing Agreement
- Summarising Marks Without Inventing Component Success
03Feedback,Access and Reporting3 lessons
Use results without concealing assistance or making wider claims.
- Turning a Learning Gap into an Actionable Response
- Preserving the Construct Through Access and Assistance
- Reporting Attainment Without Converting Research into a Guarantee
04Implementation,Evaluation and Professional Defence3 lessons
Reconcile actual opportunity and bounded assessment change.
- Recording Actual Feedback and Independent Response Opportunities
- Evaluating Component-Criterion Change with Paired Evidence
- Capstone: Defending a Coherent Assessment and Feedback Sequence
Is this course for you?
Who this is for
Teachers designing valid evidence,consistent scoring,responsive feedback and bounded reporting.
Before you begin
Basic teaching knowledge and descriptive arithmetic;fictional source-reasoning case.
Who this is not for
Not national grading,regulated awarding-body approval,psychometric validation or a replacement for school assessment authority.
Assessment & completion
20 scenario questions, 5 marks each (100 total), covering every lesson. Complete required lessons and select every correct answer before submission. Portfolio/capstone activities support self or instructor review; the portal does not collect or automatically grade projects and they are not an additional certificate gate. Credit allocation awaits institutional approval.
Materials & resources
4 modules with 12 complete lessons, reviewed sources, a connected fictional case, practice portfolio, scored capstone rubric and reusable template.