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One of the most challenging steps in your teaching responsibilities is the evaluation of student progress. Evaluation can be one of the most threatening steps for the inexperienced teacher. Planning for student evaluation is an integral part of planning for teaching, not just the final step of the instructional process. As someone who has had to maintain a high GPA in order to gain admittance to your graduate program, you are most familiar with summative evaluation--an assignment or set of assignments that result in a letter grade that is supposed to reflect your overall grasp of course material at the end of a period of time. Without question, assessing your students with grades is one of the most important tasks you may be asked to do as a teaching assistant. However, just as important as summative evaluation--determined through quizzes, tests, term papers, mid-terms, and final exams--is the formative evaluation that you can do throughout the semester in order to assess how well your students are learning as they prepare for summative evaluation. Formative evaluation can pre-empt poor student performance on summative evaluation projects; at the same time, formative evaluation can communicate to both teachers and students whether or not course content is effectively being communicated and learned, information that can lead to refinement of instruction on the part of the teacher and refinement of studying techniques on the part of the students.
