* American Family Insurance received the highest numerical score among 17 companies in the J.D. Power 2016 U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Satisfaction Study, based on 3,396 total responses, measuring the opinions of insurance decision-makers in businesses with 50 or fewer employees, surveyed March-May 2016. Your experiences may vary.
Formative assessments help teachers identify concepts that students are struggling to understand, skills they are having difficulty acquiring, or learning standards they have not yet achieved so that adjustments can be made to lessons, instructional techniques, and academic support.
Summative assessment. The goal of summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessments are often high stakes, which means that they have a high point value. Examples of summative assessments include: 1  a midterm exam. 2  a final project.