Week 3 Blog

Week Three (Chapter Two)
2.What is the difference between formative feedback and summative feedback?
Formative feedback occurs while both learning and instruction is going on. The Dynamic Instructional Design Model (DID) covers all of the elements that a teacher would need in order to teach a class effectively, including knowing your learners, stating your objectives, establishing the learning environment, identifying learning strategies, and identifying and selecting technologies. Formative feedback consists of the questions that the teacher asks himself/herself in order to tie these elements together and allow the teacher to adjust the lesson accordingly. During the knowing your learners portion of the model, the teacher might ask …Am I responding to all learning styles? Am I accurately depicting the students’ developmental stages? Am I correctly assessing student skill levels? During the stating your objectives portion of the model, the teacher might ask …Are my objectives targeting the performances I intended? Are my objectives stated in a format that makes it possible to accurately measure performance? Do my objectives include multiple levels of critical thinking? During the establishment of a learning environment, the teacher might ask…Is the environment nurturing and secure for all students? Does the class management system promote positive and productive interaction? Am I planning student and teacher exchanges that support and enhance learning? During the identifying learning strategies portion, questions might be… Am I addressing all the steps of the pedagogical cycle? Am I including varied teaching strategies and learning activities? Finally, during the identifying and selecting technologies step, the teacher might ask…Are the technologies I have selected appropriate to the content and pedagogy? Are the technologies and support materials readily available? The answers to these questions dictate the direction and pace of the teacher’s overall lesson and approach, and allow the teacher to more smoothly move throughout the teaching process.
Summative feedback, however, occurs AFTER the learning has taken place as opposed to during the learning process, like formative feedback does. Summative feedback consists of an overall summative evaluation that the teacher does in order to find out if all objectives were achieved. Data is also collected and considered. Questions asked during this type of feedback are…Am I identifying a method of assessment that will measure achievement of objectives? Is the data to be gathered from the assessment useful to determine necessary revisions? Are the evaluation techniques valid and reliable with reference to design? The answers to all of these questions and the analysis of the data collected help to determine if the lesson is effective for the learners.