JKM1 Task 3: Summative Assessments
Western Governors University
JKM1 Task 3: Summative Assessments
This paper will demonstrate the competency of interpreting summative
assessment data to determine student performance. It will then evaluate whether the summative
assessment is an appropriate measurement instrument based on the standards, objectives, and
curriculum content aspects of a lesson plan. This paper will also recommend a change to the
content or instructional change in the lesson plan based on the summative assessment data and
information in the student profiles. Lastly, this paper will include an explanation of how the
content/ instructional change would improve student performance on the summative assessment.
Interpretation of Summative Assessment Data
To provide teachers with information that is more comprehensive, many educators
propose that students be asked to carry out authentic assessment tasks that require using or
applying knowledge and skills in more realistic situations (Ryan, Cooper, & Tauer, 2013). On
the summative assessment, 30 students took the assessment to get an objective, performance, and
cumulative score. On the objective score, 3 out of 30 students scored 100. 2 out of 30 scored 90,
7 students scored 80, 10 scored 70, 7 scored 60, and 1 student scored 50. The average score for
the objective-based scores was 74. There were ten questions on the objective portion of the
summative assessment with each question being a choose the correct answer question.
For the performance-based portion of the summative assessment, the directions are to
write 3 original sentences showing examples of figurative language and listing the type of
