Summative Assessment

"The summative performance assessment tasks will not be as accurate as they are at the formative learning check level, where students only have to remember vocabulary or a single grammatical structure. When students have to bring many elements together, they will often perform with less accuracy. This is to be expected. Students experience higher levels of language production when activities are well supported and structured by the teacher. Eventually independent language performance by students will reach this destination, but it takes many directed experiences before students can use structures independently with accuracy."

Paul Sandrock: The Keys to Assessing Language Performance