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How would you use summative evaluations to assess performance gaps between desired and actual instructional outcomes?

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The solution provides an explanation of how summative evaluations can be used to address gaps in student comprehension in order to strengthen instruction

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Tie your summative test items to the objectives you wanted the students to learn. Then, analyze the summative test results. This will show you quite clearly where students mastered the content and where they did not. If you have five test items that address each of three learning objectives, ...

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