ERIC Number: EJ1235372
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 25
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ISSN: ISSN-0969-594X
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Formative and Summative Assessment in Hong Kong Primary Schools: Students' Attitudes Matter
Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, v26 n6 p675-699 2019
This study investigates the relationship between students' attitudes towards formative assessment and summative assessment and aims to enrich the understanding of formative and summative assessment from the students' perspective. A total of 3,019 Hong Kong primary school students responded to a newly developed instrument. Overall, students reported positive instrumental yet negative affective attitudes towards formative and summative assessment. Girls had less negative affective attitudes towards formative assessment, but more positive instrumental attitudes towards formative and summative assessment than boys. Grade 4 students consistently scored higher than Grade 5 and Grade 6 students in assessment attitudes. The gender and grade differences were statistically significant, but had small effect size. Moreover, it was found that students' affective and instrumental attitudes to formative assessment positively predicted students' affective and instrumental attitudes to summative assessment.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 5; Middle Schools; Grade 6
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong
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