I am looking forward to going back through my course and aligning my course objectives with my summative and formative assessments. I like the idea of looking at formative assessments as a way of guaging where students are with the stated objectives. Often, the content covered in a single class period is so immense (I teach college-level nursing courses) that it can get overwhelming trying to figure out what to focus in on (for me and my students!) - coming back to the objectives, then building formative assessments to reinforce those objectives and summative assessments to evaluate mastery . . . so logical, but had previously never occured to me.
