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Using Evaluations: Formative and Summative Components http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/news/features/formSummEval.html Formative and summative evaluations represent strategies for assessing the effectiveness of teaching and learning. The two differ in when they are conducted and their purpose. Formative strategies are implemented during the instructional process. They are designed to help the instructor understand factors that facilitate and impede student learning so that changes can be made immediately. Student management teams that operate for the duration of a course and brief surveys conducted periodically during a course are examples of formative evaluation procedures. Summative evaluations are conducted when a teaching-learning experience is completed. The purpose of these evaluations is to summarize the effectiveness of instruction with the intent of making modifications in the future. Student evaluations collected at the end a course represent summative evaluations from the students' perspective. North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Read carefully through this North Carolina site on Evaluations and State Assistance Plans and answer the question in the yellow table http://www.ncpublicschools.org/schoolimprovement/assistance/evaluation/
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