Question from Prof. Diana Laurillard’s keynote session #1
In the graph, summative assessment will decrease for the 21st century learner. How does this gel with the need to evaluate programmes for accountability purposes?
I only proposed reducing it, not getting rid of it. There should be plenty of formative assessment, which is important because students learn from it - it FORMS their development. Summative is useful as a motivator, so they actually do the formative assessment, but there is no feedback to them. So if the summative assessment can simply check on the accumulation of the formative assessment, then there should be a win-win. But yes, it should be sufficient to meet the accountability requirements.
I only proposed reducing it, not getting rid of it. There should be plenty of formative assessment, which is important because students learn from it - it FORMS their development. Summative is useful as a motivator, so they actually do the formative assessment, but there is no feedback to them. So if the summative assessment can simply check on the accumulation of the formative assessment, then there should be a win-win. But yes, it should be sufficient to meet the accountability requirements.
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