Pupil Assessment

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Pupil Assessment

• Day to day strategies to assess pupils learning

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Pupil assessment

• What is assessment?
• Tests
• SATs
• What level are children working at in various
  subjects?
• What have children learned?
• What do children need to learn next?

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• If you want a plant to grow it is no good just
  measuring it, you need to give it things that
  will make it grow.
• Children are the same, measuring them is not
  enough! They need to be given learning that will
  make them grow.

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Purpose of Assessment

• Assessment of learning
• Any assessment which summarises where learners
  are at a given point in time a snapshot of what
  has been learned in terms of attainment and
  achievement
• Assessment for learning
• Any assessment activity which informs the next
  steps to learning. Assessment for learning
  depends on actually using the information gained.

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Key factors that improve learning through
assessment

• Providing effective feedback to children
• Actively involving children in their own learning
• Adjusting teaching to take into account the
  results of assessment
• Recognising the influence that assessment has on
  the motivation and self esteem of children, both
  of which are crucial to learning
• Considering the need for children to assess
  themselves and to understand how to improve

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What the research says

• Impact on children
• Are able to recognise their achievement
• Work for themselves rather than for the teacher
• More likely to express their learning needs
• Children are more focused and behavior improves
• Greater ownership of lesson as responsibility for
  learning shifts from teacher to child
• Automatically self-evaluative position

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What the research says

• Impact on teachers
• Teachers focus more on learning intention than
  activity
• Sharpens understanding of learning intentions
• More critical and evaluative of tasks
• Reinforces vocabulary
• Makes plenary more engaging
• Allows marking to be more defined

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Example

• Activity Survey of pets in our homes
• Learning Intention To record information on a
  graph or chart
• Success Criteria
• Decide whether to use a graph or chart
• Label both axes
• Choose an appropriate scale
• Use a sharp pencil and ruler for accuracy
• Make bars the same width on a bar chart
• Give the graph or chart a title

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Separate the Activity and Learning Intention

• To list what a pet needs
• To be able to make a list
• To ask questions about how a tape recorder works
• To asks questions about why things happen and how
  things work
• To know about Remembrance Day
• To make connections between symbols and things
  which happened in the past
• To know the names of the parts of a plant
• To know the names of the parts of a plant

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Day to Day Assessment

• Questioning
• Observing
• Discussing
• Analysing
• Checking Understanding
• Involving children in assessment