Evaluate 1.1.3 The Summative Assessment

Summative assessments are a tool used to measure what a student has learned in a particular unit of material and to what extent they learned it.  In math the formative assessments are, usually, a great way to measure students readiness for a summative assessment.  Formative assessments in math can be the daily homework assignments, quizzes, and tickets out the door.  All of those things give the teacher an idea of where the students stand with the level of knowledge dealing with that particular topic.  Typically, formative assessments tend to correlate pretty well with the summative assessments.  If I have a student that doesn't do any homework and makes a 40 on a quiz, then I am not surprised when he makes a 50 on the summative assessment.  However, if I have a student that consistently does the homework assignments and makes a 80 or 90 on a quiz, then I expect them to do well on the summative assessment as well.  To measure the validity of a summative assessment, I use the attached spreadsheet (I couldn't get the actual file to attach, so I had to do a screenshot of it).  This spreadsheet is designed to tell you how many questions of each standard you need to have on the test based on the amount of time you spent on it.  This is a very helpful tool to make sure I am not putting too many of a certain type of question on the assessment.  To measure the reliability of an assessment, I check to make sure that the formative and summative assessments line up, for the most part.  To evaluate security, I give two or three different versions of a test.  I also check students work to make sure it matches up with the answer that they actually wrote down.  If it doesn't, then I know something has compromised the security of that test.

I have also included some screen shots of the assessment I created based off this spreadsheet earlier in the school year.