Formative assessment is an assessment tool to assess you to improve you, by giving feedback and opportunity for remedial.Presentation is for medical students that how it can be helpful to form them into better doctors.

1. Dr. Fahd Mudassar Hameed
MBBS,FCPS,MRCS(Glasg),DCPS(HPE)
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

2. By the end of this session learners will be able to:
 Define Formative Assessment
 Describe Types of Formative assessment
 Prerequisites of Formative Assessment
 Describe the importance of Formative assessment

3. What is Assessment:
the process of gathering, interpreting, recording, and
using information about pupils’ responses to an
educational task. (Harlen, Gipps, Broadfoot,
Nuttal,1992)

4. Assessment
Formative
Summative

5. “the end year or end of term
assessment to see whether
students have learned any set
of instructional outcomes;
thereby making a pass fail
decision.”

6. “Information communicated to
the learner that is intended to
modify his or her thinking or
behavior for the purpose of
improving learning”

7. “A systematic process to
continuously gather evidence
and provide feedback about
learning while instruction is
under way”

8.  Formative assessment aims at improving the students
learning process by indicating the students’
deficiencies in learning and suggesting how to
improve the gap.

9. Summative assessment:
assessment of Learning
Formative assessment:
assessment for learning.

12.  Informal Formative Assessment
 Formal Formative Assessment

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Learning /Response Logs
Practice Presentation
Questions:
Self /Peer Assessment Quizzes
Think-Pair-share
One minute paper
Transfer and apply

14. Students maintain a log:
 where they record their learning
 respond to a lesson regarding their understanding.
 The teacher can collect some of the logs at the end of the
instruction to further reinforce the instruction as
required.

15.  Students practice a presentation model with peer
faeedback.
 This will enhance their presentation skills and
knowledge of subject matter.
 Rubrics for presentation should be provided
beforehand.

16.  To challenge students depth of knowledge
 Questions of higher order are asked with students like
Explain, justify, imagine or defend
 Feedback is given to improve them
 Questions may be given in the form of scenario

17.  Students reflect on their learning by answering to the
difficult questions.

18.  The teacher presents a question.
 Students think for 20-30 seconds.
 And then share with their colleague .
 They come to a common understanding
 Then they share with the class.

19.  The teacher says to sum up the important concept and
jot it down.
 The work done can be discussed in the class

20.  Once core knowledge is given to the students, students
are asked how they will apply it in different practical
situations/scenarios.

22.  Formative word means :

23.  Formative word means :
relating to formation,
development, or
growth

24.  provides feedback and information during the
instructional process
 Measures student progress
 allows to “rethink” and then “redeliver” that material
to ensure students are on track

25.  Primary focus is to identify areas that may need
improvement
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26.  Typically not graded (no summative component to it).

27.  Feedback is a necessary component to it.

28.  Space in time table

29. Formal Formative Assessment:
 We are using Formal formative assessment at the end
of one module /clerkship session.
 Assessment sessions are held by every week or
specified intervals to let the students check their
understanding of the subject matter and then
feedback is given

30. Informal Formative Assessment:
 Before, during or after the instruction by the teachers
by asking questions , mock MCQs
 a short review of the previous lecture in connection
with the current lecture.

31. Informal Formative Assessment:
 Before, during or after the instruction by the teachers
by asking questions , mock MCQs

32. Informal Formative Assessment:
Surprise Tests:
 during a module or at the end of one week
 MCQ, SEQs

33.  Students are encouraged to see the teachers to see
individually or as groups after the instruction is over.

34.  Need not to think Formative Assessment as
threatening

35.  To guide you where you are

36.  It is not meant to compare to your fellow students(not
graded)

37.  It is not meant to compare to your fellow students(not
graded)

38.  It is not meant to compare to your fellow students(not
graded)

39.  It is not meant to compare to your fellow students(not
graded)

40.  To improve and clarify your concepts feedback is given

41.  Formative Assessment is there to make you even more
better