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1. Which is more important, formative or summative?

Basically both of these evaluations are important because it strengthen the outcome of both the teaching and learning.

Formative assessment allows students to express what they already know. It also helps the teacher to plan strategies on how to facilitate learning of each student. On the other hand, the result of the summative assessment serves as the evidence of learning which is primarily expressed in the teaching goals and objectives.

Choosing one over the other can mean failure to have a valid and reliable outcome because students have diverse learning ability which must be assessed and addressed during the process so that each student will have a good summative evaluation at the end of the course/subject.

2. Strengths of Formative over Summative, vice versa.

Strengths of Formative Assessment:

1. Opportunity to know and understand the students’ current knowledge, skills and attitudes.
2. Plan any change in the strategies of teaching to adapt to student’s needs
3. Teacher can evaluate if his strategies are effective and if students learn as the process progress
4. Opportunity for students to assess themselves and motivate them to work and study more

Strengths of Summative Assessment:

a. Provide evidence that the goal of teaching and learning was achieved

b. Basis for adjustment/updating of curriculum/lesson plan for the succeeding school year/semester

c. Students are rewarded based on their efforts

d. Students are given opportunity to supplement learning (tutorial, remedial, etc) as needed

3. Recitation is one of the examples of Formative Evaluation. How will you handle errors committed by students during recitation?

Errors during recitation are inevitable but it gives the opportunity for teachers to motivate students and exercise their critical thinking. As a teacher, I can either:

1. re-phrase the question
2. give example or situation and then ask the question again
3. ask the student to give example of what he means (illustrate)
4. ask another student to answer the similar question and make a follow-up question intended for the person who answered incorrectly
5. if the same student commits error again and again, I can give him advance assignment and then call him to recite his answer.