Research on Summative Self-assessment and Formative Assessment for Big Data General Course

Big data is becoming one of the most important technologies in this era which plays an important role in various fields. Thus offering big data as a general course to students from different majors in university is necessary which will benefit them in their future work. Considering the characteristics of general course and different professional backgrounds of the students, the assessment method needs to be carefully devised. Based on our teaching practice in Xihua University, in this paper, we analyze two types of assessment methods, summative self-assessment and formative assessment. We find that the two assessment results are positive correlated and carefully devised formative assessment can be used as a grading standard which in line with the teaching goal of the big data general course.