Student Learning

Prep to Year 10 Assessment – Assessment Professional Learning Modules

Module 1 facilitator notes  

Overall advice for Module 1

  • This module is the core component of the professional learning modules. All other modules assume that the core activities of this module have been completed first. The table, below, indicates where this module links in with the other student learning initiatives and the core concepts that it explores.
  • Download the Facilitator Notes (PDF - 182Kb) for more specific advice for this module including suggested sequencing, timing, resources and questions to ask to complement activities.

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The important links here are to the Department of Education

Assessment

Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT)

Victorian Essential Learning Standards

Curriculum Planning

outcomes

The Outcomes are at the heart of this module. These are the ideas that you, as facilitator, need to keep front and centre as you work through the activities with your colleagues, always connecting back to improving student learning.

After completing Module 1 teachers will be able to:

  • analyse how assessment beliefs and values link to past experiences
  • map their own ideas about assessment
  • compare and contrast the Assessment Advice, and the assessment aspects in The Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT) with the Assessment Reform Group's 10 principles
  • distinguish between assessment for learning, assessment as learning and assessment of learning
  • audit their practices against these three purposes of assessment
  • explain the research base for the Assessment Advice
  • recognise that assessment planning decisions are linked to the purpose of the assessment
  • plan and implement some classroom-based actions following this module.