Summative assessment is outcome-focused, rather than process-focused. This type of assessment provides the means for finding out whether your project has reached its goals/objectives/outcomes.

Formative assessment assessment is a technique that allows the evaluation of student learning during an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. According to the Carnegie Mellon University’s definition, the goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning and to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by teachers to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning.

Assessment can be carried out with different tools, including digital ones, such as Kahoot, Socrative, Plickers or Quizziz, all of which offer a platform to give participants valuable feedback.

Another innovative way of assessing students is peer assessment, a collaborative learning technique in which students assess their peers' work and have their work assessed by peers. Digital tools can help change assessment from something teachers do to students into something teachers and students collaboratively construct. Here are some examples of free tools that teachers can use in their classrooms to create digital learning portfolios with their students: Padlet, Evernote, Kidblog. But it could be anything that has a shared platform, therefore making it accessible for everyone to contribute.

Rubrics are an attempt to create consistent evaluation criteria. They allow teachers and students to evaluate based on complex and objective criteria, and provide a framework for self-evaluation, reflection and peer review. With rubrics, it is possible to get a fair and accurate assessment, without actually having to "grade" students.