Advantages of Summative Assessment on Raising Students’ Motivation Case of Third Year EFL Students at The University of Tlemcen

Abstract

Teaching is counted to be among the top-notch activities that collaborate in the advancement of a bunch of civilized societies. On the top of that, assessment is as necessary as other teaching practices. However, the lack of assessment in any instructional systems would leave a huge gap in the process of teaching. As a matter of fact, assessment is noted as the bridge between teaching and learning. Moreover, assessment is seen as a systematic process that highlights the students’ learning and the success of the process of teaching. The best of all is that,assessment covers teaching throughout the whole duration, mostly at the beginning, in the middle and by the end, known chronologically as diagnostic, formative and Summative Assessment. What is important on the worthier side is that, Summative Assessment has been successfully sparked the attention of a remarkable number of scholars due to its intensive importance at the level of gathering reliable information that reflect the accurate level which the students currently handle.