Advantages and Barriers of Formative Assessment in the Teaching-learning Activity

Within the pedagogy works destined to evaluation, three forms of evaluation are analyzed: an initial evaluation, a formative evaluation and a summative evaluation. Each form of evaluation is used in a particular moment of the educational process; therefore, the initial one operates an the beginning, the formative one during the process and the summative one after the process has ended, in order to confirm the obtained results. In the case of formative evaluation, all experts agree that it is incorporated in the educational process and plays an important regulator role as it supplies important information concerning its development.