Attitude of secondary level students towards formative evaluation

Formative evaluation is an essential part of evaluation process in Secondary Education. It can move students toward self-monitoring of their work and intellectual persistence. It gives feedback to the students, teacher and help them to improve upon points the instruction. The objective of this paper is to find out the attitude of secondary level students towards formative evaluation. The number of the sample was 196, purposively selected from two urban and two rural schools in W.B. Finding of this study revealed that students had positive attitudes to formative evaluation and focus on the importance of formative evaluation for improving students’ performance.