Assessment

Principles

1: Assessment should be an integral part of teaching

2: Assessment should be educative

3: Assessment should be fair

4:Assessment should be designed for a specific purpose

5: Assessment should lead to formative reporting

6: Assessment should lead to school-wide evaluation process

constructed to make judgements on students progress to help ongoing learning

3 stages:

Should encourage long term and in depth learning

provide feedback that assists with future learning

data should be explicit to studnets

inclusivity

determines students ability at that specific time or that specific day

provide feedback to parents

Assessment types

Assessment FOR learning

teachers using what they know to determine students ability

FORMATIVE

Assessment AS learning

Students assess themselves, as questions

students responsibility for own learning

Assessment OF learning

summative

teachers using evidence in contract to achievement standards and outcomes