Formative assessment of EVS is _______. A. Assessment for learning B.…

Assessment in education is broadly of two kinds: summative and formative. Summative assessment — assessment OF learning — measures what has been learned at the end of an instructional unit, mainly for grading. Formative assessment is different: it is an ongoing, in-process activity carried out DURING teaching and learning, and it covers two related ideas — assessment FOR learning, where the teacher continuously collects evidence and gives feedback to adjust instruction, and assessment AS learning, where students themselves monitor, reflect on, and take charge of their own learning.

Formative assessment of EVS is therefore the combination of these two ongoing, in-process ideas: assessment for learning together with assessment as learning. Contrasting the other pairings offered:

• assessment for learning + assessment of learning mixes a formative idea with a summative one, since assessment of learning evaluates final achievement rather than ongoing progress

• assessment of learning + assessment as learning has the same mismatch in reverse — assessment of learning stays summative and cannot combine with an in-process idea

• assessment as learning + ‘assessment about learning’ fails because ‘assessment about learning’ is not a standard category in assessment theory at all

Hence, formative assessment of EVS is best described as assessment for learning together with assessment as learning.