To explore the promotion of formative assessment for teaching

the surgery teaching and research section of Institute of Pediatric has carried out formative assessment in theory teaching of pediatric medicine pediatric surgery for seven-year program for two consecutive years

and the teaching effects and assessment results have been made detailed analysis. The results shows that for-mative assessment combining with summative assessment can guide the students to adjust learning method in time and improve teaching methods effectively. Compared with the pure summative evalua-tion

formative assessment has enhanced the students' learning initiative

and improved their abilityof learning and solving problems. Formative assessment can comprehensively measure the overall quality of students.