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Prep to Year 10 Assessment – Assessment Professional Learning Modules

Module 1: Connecting assessment with learning

This is the Core module

Facilitator Notes for Module 1: Connecting Assessment with Learning

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After completing Module 1 teachers will be able to:

  • analyse how their assessment beliefs and values link to their 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.
Module 1
Module 1 - Activities and Description
These activities are the core activities.		 Delving Deeper Activities Samples and Stories
Self Assessment Tool
This can be done by the whole staff, and collated; by small teaching teams; or by individual teachers. It acts as a guide to which activities and modules are most useful for particular groups of teachers.

 

 
Activity 1-0 Assessment Appetiser 1 : Memory Lane (PDF - 62Kb)
This warm-up activity will help teachers make the connection between their past experiences and their current beliefs and practices.

 

 
Activity 1-1 Concept Mapping Assessment (PDF - 79Kb)
Using a visual organiser strategy pairs develop a map of the key ideas related to assessment and how they connect, thus sharing different understandings.

 

Sample concept maps

Module 1 Presentation (PPT - 651Kb)
'Current Perspectives on Assessment' and 'Synopsis of key research papers on assessment'

 

 
Activity 1-2 Key Assessment Principles Jigsaw (PDF - 81Kb)
This activity explores the Assessment Advice and relevant Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT), especially Principle 5. It concludes with building a picture of what assessment of/for/as learning looks like in specific contexts.		 PoLT
Assessment
VELS

 
Activity 1-3 Assessment Audit (PDF - 70Kb)
In this activity teachers audit their current practices - sorting them into assessment of learning, assessment for learning and assessment as learning. Then teachers discuss their strengths and identify where they could make changes.		 Scottish Assessment is for Learning' triangle (http://www.ltscotland.org. uk/assess/aiflschool)

 
Activity 1-4A Assessment and Learning Research #1 (PDF - 90Kb)
Through using the short Discussion Starters teachers will learn what some important research says about the relationship between assessment and learning.		 1-4B Assessment and Learning Research #2 (PDF - 123Kb)
Here are more Discussion Starters drawn from important research.

 
Activity 1-5 Assessment Planning (PDF - 73Kb)
A useful planning framework for teachers that asks the big assessment questions: why? when? what? who? and how?

 

 
Activity 1-6 Assessment Actions from module 1 (PDF - 73Kb)
This will assist in planning follow up actions for yourself and your colleagues.

 

 
Professional Reading for module 1 (PDF - 67Kb)
This material provides additional ideas and draws together some important ideas for this module.		 Module 1 Resources
Additional web links and texts are available here to follow up the ideas in this module.