Prep to Year 10 Assessment – Assessment Professional Learning Modules

Module 4 samples

• Student: I like checking my goals because I can see how good I'm going.
• Student 1 learning goals
• Teacher: [I learnt that] self and peer assessment can take the load off teachers. Peers can be positive and balance the child's own assessment
• Teacher: I've used the electronic whiteboard for peer conferencing on writing (PDF - 485Kb)
• Teacher: One thing I do is get the kids to put their work in different tubs as they leave at break or the end of the day. They choose which tub according to how they self assess their work. I call it "Which Face?" (PDF - 70Kb)
• Student 2 learning goals
• At Yarrambat Primary we have been doing self assessment for a while now. We have a few different formats and we sometimes use the de bono 6 hats for self assessment as well. They fill in goal tracking sheets, too, across the term. We have different ones for different levels.
  • Three examples of Grade 6 students self assessing their learning goals (PDF - 1.4Mb)
  • Two Goal Tracking sheets (PDF - 712Kb)
  • Peer Literature Circles self assessment (PDF - 56Kb)
  • Chance and Data self assessment
  • Level 3 narrative self assessment
  • Level 3 oral presentation self assessment
  • Thinking skills self assessment
• Self Assessing Habits of Mind has been tried in schools like Mt Waverley Secondary College and in the Brentwood cluster.
  • Habits of Mind at Mt Waverley SC (PDF - 51Kb)
  • Habits of Mind in the Brentwood cluster No. 1 (PDF - 88Kb)
  • Habits of Mind in the Brentwood cluster No. 2 (PDF - 70Kb)
• The two Brentwood cluster rubrics have been adapted and built at the Rubistar website (http://rubistar.4teachers.org). Visit this searchable site and check out some of the hundreds of rubrics you can adapt.