Assessment to provide feedback on the learning process

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