Student Learning

Prep to Year 10 Assessment – Assessment Professional Learning Modules

Module 4: Assessment AS Learning

Assesment For Of and As logo
  • Assessment OF learning
  • Assessment FOR learning
  • Assessment as learning occurs when students reflect on and monitor their progress to inform their future learning goals. It is regularly occurring, formal or informal (e.g. peer feedback buddies, formal self assessment) and helps students take responsibility for their own past and future learning. It builds metacognition as it involves students in understanding the standards expected of them, in setting and monitoring their own learning goals, and in developing strategies for working towards achieving them.


Facilitator Notes for Module 4: Assessment AS Learning

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After completing Module 4 teachers will be able to:

  • make planning decisions for assessment AS learning purposes
  • explain how assessment as learning contributes to students’ learning outcomes
  • understand how personal learning goals influence students’ motivation and learning
  • design a range of assessment as learning experiences that include assisting students in setting and monitoring their learning goals, organising metacognitive questions and using various self and peer assessment strategies
  • plan and implement some classroom-based actions following this module.

Module 4 - Activities and Description
The activities are the core activities.

Delving Deeper Activities

Samples and Stories

Sharing
Begin this session sharing ideas that colleagues have tried since last session - what worked and what didn't and ideas to try next time.

 

 
Activity 4-0 Assessment Appetiser: Self Assessment Poem (PDF - 60Kb)
    

Module 4 Presentation (PPT - 542Kb)
The student's role in taking more responsibility for their own learning is outlined here.

  

 
Activity 4-1 Planning Decisions: Assessment AS Learning (PDF - 78Kb)
Teachers will use the assessment planning process to make decisions when the purpose is assessment AS learning.

 

 
Activity 4-2 Learning through Assessment AS Learning (PDF - 95Kb)
Quotable quotes offer interesting insights into the importance of students taking responsibility for their learning through self and peer assessment. Teachers will then generate a Plus, Minus, Innovative table.		 Download and use the AAIA Self Assessment booklet (http://www.aaia.org.uk/assessment/assessment.asp)

 
Activity 4-3 Learning Goals, Motivation & Assessment (PDF - 77Kb)
Learning goals and motivation links offer some surprises from the research. Processes for helping even young students develop their own learning goals and monitor their metacognition are offered.

Go to the Personal Learning domain (http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/essential/personal/learning) and see how the learning goals are shaped at the levels you teach.

Samples of students self assessing

Activity 4-4A Strategies for Assessment AS Learning (PDF - 99Kb)
A range of informal and formal strategies for self and peer assessment are analysed here. You can also find out what students think about self assessment.

Activity 4-4B Digging Deeper into Self-Assessment  (PDF - 75Kb)

Curriculum Corporation Self Assessment 

  
Activity 4-5 Assessment Actions from Module 4 (PDF - 73Kb)
This will assist in planning follow up actions for yourself and your colleagues.

 

 

Professional Reading for module 4 (PDF - 66Kb)

This material provides additional ideas and draws together some important ideas for this module.

 Module 4 Resources
Additional web links and texts are available here to follow up the ideas in this module.