Generally speaking, there are two forms of assessment in medical education: formative and summative. Formative assessments happen repeatedly throughout the academic semester. They offer valuable qualitative feedback on students’ current teaching–learning outcomes, and accordingly aid faculty to adjust prospective teaching methodologies in order to enhance students’ subsequent learning outcomes ...

Every society has its own culture, values, and ideology. Translations convey the meaning as well as cultural and ideological values, beliefs, ideas and norms from source culture to target culture. One type of translation which nowadays is popular among people, and can attract so many audiences in different ages is Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly dubbing. If there is difference betwe...

BACKGROUND The use of formative research as a critical component of intervention planning is highly supported in the literature. However, studies that report such processes in practice are minimal. This paper reports on the formative data collection and analysis that informed the development of a multilevel intervention that utilizes mine assessment technology to bridge health communication bet...

At all levels of education the assessment of learning is generally regarded as an integral part of teachers’ work. For early childhood teachers, i.e., those who work with children in the age-range birth to six years, there are very particular considerations arising from the characteristics of young learners and the nature of early learning. This paper reviews the research on formative assessmen...

Assessment for learning is increasingly part of accepted orthodoxy, with massive government funding in England, is central to national assessment in Wales, and an export to the USA. Black et al.’s Assessment for learning: Putting it into practice (2003), the ‘bible’ of assessment for learning, is set reading for trainee teachers across the UK, and this text is increasingly a staple diet for all...

This work proposes a computer assisted assessment approach of algorithmic competencies. Aside from the fact that this approach brings a solution for delicate problem of e-assessment of algorithmic, in addition it is formative. Drawing one’s inspiration from the basic principles of the algorithmic field itself, it recovers an interesting efficiency. It reclines on use of scalable solutions basis...

Abney AJ, Amin S, Kibble JD. Understanding factors affecting participation in online formative quizzes: an interview study. Adv Physiol Educ 41: 457–463, 2017; doi:10.1152/advan.00074.2017.—A positive correlation between performance and participation in formative quizzes and final summative examinations has been reported many times. The goal of the present interview study was to construct a mod...

In usability research, difference between formative and reflective measurement models for the assessment of latent variables has been ignored largely. As a consequence, many usability scales are misspecified. This might result in reduced scale validity because of the elimination of important usability facets within the procedure of scale development. The aim of the current study was to develop ...

In this paper we report on research related to the provision of automated feedback based on a computer adaptive test (CAT), used in formative assessment. A cohort of 76 second year university undergraduates took part in a formative assessment with a CAT and were provided with automated feedback on their performance. A sample of students responded in a short questionnaire to assess their attitud...