Assessment to provide feedback on the learning process
by Lydia Jones
1. Pre assessment
2. To inform practice
3. Checking prior knowledge and understanding
4. Clear objectives and criteria for success
5. Assessing the unit of inquiry, which parts were successful, which parts need to be revised and how?
6. assess the effectiveness of the environment on the students learning
7. Formative assessment: gives clear insight into student's understanding
8. Informs every stage of the teaching and learning process
9. Listening
10. Observing
11. Helps teacher to know how to differentiate tasks
12. open-ended tasks
13. Process-focussed assessments
14. Summative assessment: what has been learnt?
15. Recording and reporting: home/transferring information onto the next teacher
16. Assessing understanding, can students transfer the knowledge they have learnt?
17. Assessing the students through self assessment, peer assessment, teacher assessment
18. teacher assessment of self and peer assessment
19. successful assessment gathers evidence from which sound conclusions can be drawn
20. Performance assessments
