What is summative evaluation?

Summative evaluation is a method of judging the worth of a program at the end of the program activities. The focus is on the outcome (Bhola 1990).

Here are some examples of summative evaluation:

• Determining attitudes and achievement related to using a primer after it has been used in a training course
• Collecting data on the impact of a program operating in a community for a period of time

• How to do summative training evaluation
• What is pretraining evaluation?
• What is formative evaluation?

• Bhola 1989:152--163
• Bhola 1990

• Concept module: summative evaluation
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