You can see my initial thoughts on assessment through the regular text. I have modified each of my ideas, and these modifications are the bolded ones.
I don't believe my thinking has changed in any particular manner after doing the readings. I have however extended what I already knew and seen the connections between the different aspects of assessment and how they inform and extend the summative assessment aspect.
I have learnt that formative assessment is more than brief note-taking. Observations and checklists are a part of formative assessment, these all also help inform the summative assessment. Especially when you look at the "what we have learned" aspect of the KWL chart. This can vastly help inform the teacher as to what the student has learned at the end of the unit. Furthermore, small tasks that can be seen as formative assessment can be gathered together to form a portfolio that expresses the students' journey through the unit. This portfolio can be used as summative assessment as well.
Students also need to reflect on their journey, and inform the teacher in order to inform their understanding, but also to inform the teacher's practice so that changes can be made.
There are a lot of similarities between my thinking and others' thinking. However, what I also learnt from others mind-maps was that formative assessment is more than just the teacher assessing the student, it is also the student assessing their understanding, and what they are learning.
It was helpful to have my prior knowledge activated because I got to extend my schema and modify it in some cases.
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