Effect on Procrastination and Learning of Mistakes in the Design of the Formative and Summative Assessments: A Case Study

The design of the formative and summative assessment processes is of paramount importance to help students avoid procrastination and guide them towards the achievement of the learning objectives that are described in the course syllabus. If the assessment processes are poorly designed the outcome ca...

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Published in:Education sciences 2021-08, Vol.11 (8), p.428
Main Authors: Salas Vicente, Fidel, Escuder, Ángel Vicente, Pérez Puig, Miguel Ángel, Segovia López, Francisco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Automation
Behavioral Objectives
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
COVID-19
Design engineering
Educational objectives
Feedback
Foreign Countries
formative assessment
Formative Evaluation
Industrial design
Learning
Learning Processes
Problem Solving
Procrastination
Student Evaluation
Students
summative assessment
Summative Evaluation
Teachers
Tests
Thinking Skills
Time Management
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:The design of the formative and summative assessment processes is of paramount importance to help students avoid procrastination and guide them towards the achievement of the learning objectives that are described in the course syllabus. If the assessment processes are poorly designed the outcome can be disappointing, including high grades but poor learning. In this paper, we describe the unexpected and undesirable effects that an on-demand formative assessment and the timetable of a summative assessment that left the most cognitively demanding part, problem-solving, to the end of the course, had on the behavior of students and on both grading and learning. As the formative assessment was voluntary, students procrastinated till the last minute. However, the real problem was that due to the design of the summative assessment, they focused their efforts mainly on the easiest parts of the summative assessment, passing the course with ease, but achieving a low learning level, as evidenced by the low scores of the problem-solving part of the summative assessment.
ISSN:2227-7102
2227-7102
DOI:10.3390/educsci11080428