According to what I have learned in this course, I found that both formative assessment strategy and summative assessment strategy are both applied in this course. Formative assessment strategy focuses on feedback and incorporation. Learners can reveive feedbacks from every tasks they have done, and learners will improve from those feedbacks. In this course, students are told to write blog posts weekly and they will receive feedbacks from their instructor.

Summative assessment strategy is also used in this course, and I think it is more common than formative assessment strategy. It happens in most of the courses from elemental schools to universities. Summative assessment strategy does not give too many feedbacks during the leanring period. It often comes at the end of leanring experiences, which shows leaners’ final performace with grades. Summative assessment strategy is easier and it can save lots of time in assessments, but it has high risks for learners. Learners can easily go to the wrong directions and make mistakes when they do not receive feedbacks during the process. Learners are subjective when they are learning new things and they really need guidance and suggestions in order to make sure they are on the right track all the time.

In addition, self assessment also plays a significant part in the whole learning experience. Learners should periodically discuss with their peers and reflect themselves about what they have learner and what they need to improve. These strategies can be generalized into behaviorists work and constructivists work because they include feedbacks and openness. Compared to the other courses I have taken, there are not too many courses which apply formative assessment strategy. Students receive less feedbacks so they need to discuss frequently with their classmates.