It can refer to the end of a cycle, or stage of education course, but also to the end of the development of a teaching unit or a quarter, half, etc. It is an evaluation that verifies the results obtained to evaluate them Production or certification.
Summative assessment assesses learning outcomes and therefore the procedures and instruments used must provide meaningful information about what students have learned in order to determine whether they have acquired competencies based on previous competencies.
Obtaining information
The activities proposed to highlight the learning acquired depend on the nature of the area, especially the competencies that are intended to be achieved, as well as the type of competencies that have been carried out throughout the school year. Possible summative assessment activities include:
Evaluation strategies in their summative function
- Ask for a group or individual investigation.
- Provide oral presentations that require the approach to a problem, a proposed method of solution and verification of proposals.
- Enable participation in discussions that address the topic as a whole.
- Ask for the realization of a product.
- Enable the performance and / or explanation of laboratory experiences, field work, etc.
- Enable the problematization of the content, so that they can be transferred to different situations.
- Promote simulation activities of any action that allows the application of knowledge.
- Propose activities that allow direct observation of learning of the student or student in the developed capacity is revealed.
- Request written productions that require: the generation of alternative solutions, the assumption of positions, critical judgment, the expression of ideas, feelings and preferences, making valid assumptions and conclusions, interpreting statistical reports and messages from the media.
In summary, the decisions derived from the summative evaluation serve to accredit the learning obtained by the students and communicate information about the student's performance to different instances (students, families, educational administration and society in general). Of the student, as well as the grade group.
The consequences of this process, grades, promotion to the next grade or permanence in the same grade, as well as decisions about certification.
