Effective Assessment
I believe that effective assessment should provide strategies which:
- Have clear, direct links to outcomes and support the curriculum
- Are based on an understanding of how students learn
- Are ongoing rather than episodic
- Play an integral part in both teaching and learning
- Challenge the students, but are at the same time supportive and beneficial
- Recognise individual achievements and progress
- Involve the school community including: teachers, students and parents
- Use varying assessment strategies in order to be comprehensive
- Are valid and suitable to the particular outcome being assessed, with reproducible results
- Are fair to ensure equal opportunity for success
- Engage the learner, and
- Are time efficient and can be integrated into normal teaching
Assessment Strategies
In order to achieve the assessment aims outlined above, I believe in utilising a variety of assessment strategies. In order for the assessment to reliable, accurate and fair, each strategy used must be appropriate for its application.
A variety of assessment tools and strategies that I have incorporated into my lessons include:
With purposeful and varied assessment, the assessment cycle acts a valuable teaching tool, improving my knowledge about student learning and evaluating how effectively I have taught units of work.
A variety of assessment tools and strategies that I have incorporated into my lessons include:
- Examinations
- Tests
- Peer-Assessment
- Self-Assessment
- Portfolio of student work examples
- Group work
- Oral presentations
- Observations
- Rubrics
- Written assignments
With purposeful and varied assessment, the assessment cycle acts a valuable teaching tool, improving my knowledge about student learning and evaluating how effectively I have taught units of work.
How I Use the Assessment Cycle
Located on the following page, examples of FOR, AS and OF learning can be found.