On Saturday 0, I learned several things that enriched my knowledge regarding assessment. One of those things I learned is the importance of the purpose in the assessing strategies or tools that we use. For example, although there may be distinctive characteristics about summative and formative assessment, the purpose of each of them is what makes them formative or summative. That is, if the assessment is formative, it will look for the reviewing of the students’ progress, that is, this type of assessment will result in valuable information to plan the next activities of assessment. On the other hand, a summative assessment provides teachers and students with concrete evidences of the knowledge of the students in a given moment in order to make comparisons of the students’ learning.