形成性评价注重对学生学习过程进行评价,它可以有效地弥补终结性评价片面强调教学结果的缺点。在新型的大学英语教学模式中,实行形成性评价已成为一种趋势。本文重点探究了形成性评价的理论及优点、实现评价中心的转移、形成性评价与终结性评价相结合以及形成性评价在大学英语教学中的应用。 Formative evaluation focuses on the assessment process of students’ learning process, which can effectively make up for the shortcomings that the terminal evaluation emphasizes the teaching results unilaterally. In the new model of college English teaching, the implementation of formative evaluation has become a trend. This paper focuses on the theory and advantages of formative evaluation, and realizes the transfer of evaluation center, the combination of formative evaluation and final evaluation, and the application of formative evaluation in college English teaching.