Ma 207 Statistics
A formative assessment I will use is online homework. This allows a student to immediately see if their answer is correct. They way that I have it set up, the student can retry the material. You can set it up so that there is only one try but then it becomes much more summative and less formative. This is particularly important in online courses. In an in person class, I might use informal ungraded (In the sense that no score is provided. Answers and feedback are still provided.) problem sets and group discussions as formative assessment. In an asynchronous delivery, I cannot give immediate feedback. The computer can. I also plan to have the standard, one bite at the apple, test as summative. Except for the final this is still somewhat formative, in this class. This is true since most math classes build one module on the other. Reviewing and improving your work is necessary for the next module. The difficulty is in getting students to view it this way. They often look at the grade and are done.