Formative Assessment Should Be Implemented More In The School System

Educational assessment is the process of documenting usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and belief.  Assessment can be focused on the individual learner, the learning community, the institution or the educational system as a whole.
Assessment is an issue that has always been under discussion in the society from the time it has been implemented in our education system by the government. There are three types of assessment in general. They are the :

- Formative assessment
- Summative assessment
- Interim assessment

From my point of view, I feel that formative assessment should be implemented more in the school system and also given priority to. The aim of formative assessment is to monitor or observe the students learning to provide on-going feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. Formative more specifically help students identify their strength and weaknesses and also target the areas that need work. Apart of that, it also enables the learners to change their behaviour and understanding right away. This assessment is considered to be part of the learning process. Formative assessment serves as a practice for students, just similar to meaningful homework and assignments.

According to Black and Wiliam:

“… Formative assessment does improve learning. The gains in achievement appear to be quite considerable, and as noted earlier, among the largest ever reported for educational interventions. As an illustration of just how big these gains are, an effect size of 0.7, if it could be achieved on a nationwide scale, would be equivalent to raising the mathematics attainment score of an ‘average’ country like England, New Zealand or the United States into the ‘top five’ after the Pacific Rim countries of Singapore, Korea, Japan and Hong Kong.” (Beaton et al., 1996, Black and Wiliam, 1998,