Student Learning

Prep to Year 10 Assessment – Assessment Professional Learning Modules

Module 5: Making Consistent Judgements

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After completing Module 5 teachers will be able to:

  • understand that valid assessment is accurate, appropriate and fair
  • understand that consistent assessment is reproducible and therefore reliable
  • make more valid and consistent judgements when planning and conducting assessment
  • establish processes, such as using assessment maps, moderation and consistency protocols, to build greater consistency in their judgements on students’ learning
  • develop an assessment plan that embeds ideas developed in all five modules into their context
  • plan and implement some classroom-based actions following this module.

Module 5 - 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 5-0 Assessment Appetiser: Accurate, Fair and Consistent (PDF - 58Kb)
After sharing ideas about inaccurate, unfair and inconsistent assessment teachers will develop a clearer idea of the concepts.

Activity 5-1A Valid Assessment (PDF - 71Kb)
Issues about validity are explored so that you understand how to create more valid assessments.

  
Module 5 Presentation (PPT - 533Kb)
Issues surrounding making valid and consistent judgements are described.		 Making Consistent Judgements Professional Learning
(www.det.wa.edu.au/education/mse/consistentjudgements.html) - this site gives procedures that facilitate consistent teacher judgements when assessing performance tasks.

 

Activity 5-1C Moderation and Progression Points (Word - 29Kb) This activity focuses on assessing student work using progression points.

 Activity 5-2 Consistent Assessment (PDF - 107Kb)
Issues of task, teacher and student reliability are explored here as teachers find out how to assess more consistently.

 
Activity 5-3 Using the Assessment Maps (PDF - 74Kb)
Through using the assessment maps you will learn one way to make more valid and consistent judgements about student learning.

Assessment Maps

 
Activity 5-4A Consistency & Moderation (PDF - 66Kb)
Using strategies and protocols teachers will learn a range of ways to make more consistent judgements through moderation processes.		   Samples and Stories of moderation practices
Activity 5-5 Developing a Consistency Protocol (PDF - 87Kb)
Teachers can create a series of steps, or a protocol, that ensures greater consistency in assessment.

 

 

Activity 5-6 Concept Mapping Assessment Revisited (PDF - 62Kb)
Teachers produce another concept map and analyse how their ideas have changed through the professional learning experience.

 

 
Activity 5-7 Building an Assessment Plan for your Context  (PDF - 64Kb)
Teachers develop an assessment plan that embeds key ideas from all 5 modules into their context.

 

 
Activity 5-8 Assessment Actions from Module 5 (PDF - 70Kb)
This will assist in planning follow up actions.

 

 

Professional Reading for Module 5 (PDF - 64Kb)
This material provides additional ideas and draws together some important ideas for this module.

 Module 5 Resources
Additional web links and texts are available here to follow up the ideas in this module.