Audit-ive” Versus Educative Assessment.
Grant Wiggins (1998) has generated a concept that is extremely important here. He distinguishes between “audit—ive” and educative assessment (see Figure
3.5 for my illustration of the meaning of these two concepts).
Teachers whose only feedback and assessment procedures are two midterms and a final exemplify the perspective of audit-ive assessment.
When this is the only feedback and assessment that occurs in a course, it serves only one function: to audit student learning as a basis for the grade turned ill.
This approach to feedback and assessment is typically based on backward -looking assessment, with exams that look back on what was covered
during the last several weeks and aim simply at determining whether the students got it or not.