I introduced two forms of assessment at the end of the last post.
Summative assessment is the one that any of us who have gone through the formal education system will be more familiar with.
It is used to evaluate what we have learned at the conclusion of a particular instructional period, or module, semester, school year.
It usually takes the form of the traditional exam or skills test that I described in the previous post and that most of us feel a little trepidation on being reminded of!
I will not dwell on it here because firstly I imagine that most people would be very familiar with it, and secondly, in our kind of training, Formative Assessment will be the more favoured type.