Questions about the Formative Or Summative poster

What’s on the Formative Or Summative poster?

Formative against Summative, side by side. Formative: Purpose: to change what happens next; Formative: Information used by teacher and pupil; Formative: Frequent, cheap, often informal; Formative: Needs no marks at all; Formative: Worthless if nothing changes; Summative: Purpose: to record what was achieved; Summative: Information used for reporting or selection; Summative: Occasional, costly, standardised; Summative: Needs comparability and fairness; Summative: Worthless if it does not measure the construct; The same test can be either. What makes it formative is the action taken, not the lab…. Educational reference. A test used for both purposes usually serves neither well: reporting pressure distorts the diagnostic signal.

Who is the Formative Or Summative poster for?

Formative Or Summative belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning assessment can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Formative Or Summative poster?

Use it when a school calls a termly test formative because it is low stakes. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Formative Or Summative belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Formative Or Summative?

Blueprinting A Test, Comparative Judgement and Feedback That Works sit alongside Formative Or Summative in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Blueprinting A TestComparative JudgementFeedback That Works

Is the Formative Or Summative poster free to download and print?

Yes. Formative Or Summative downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Formative Or Summative poster print at?

Formative Or Summative is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Formative Or Summative loses nothing.Printing guide