From the course: Elearning Essentials: Instructional Design
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From the course: Elearning Essentials: Instructional Design
Using summative and formative assessments
- [Instructor] During a road trip, you might be thinking about your trip as you go, the places you have seen, the new people you have met. And then at the end of the trip, you sit back and reflect. You might have a different perspective of what the trip meant now. When it comes to assessments, you can take the same summative informative approach. Summative assessments can be effective for grading a cumulative understanding of the instructional material or the application of a specific concept. Example of summative assessments are quizzes and tests, essays, and projects. While summative assessments are important to gain a certain level of instructional achievement, formative assessments offer your learners feedback in areas where they might need to improve and pinpoint their strengths during the training program. In e-learning, formative assessments can be especially effective because it offers the opportunity to interact with your learners and develop a rapport and a relationship that…
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