Assessment Advice

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Assessment Advice
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• The purpose of this workshop is to
• Define the concepts of assessment for learning,
  assessment as learning and assessment of learning
• Explore effective and powerful assessment
  approaches for classroom use

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OUR EDUCATIVE PURPOSE
What is powerful to learn?
What is powerful learning and what promotes it?
Who do we report to?
LEARNER
Victorian Essential Learning Standards
Principles of Learning and Teaching
Students Parents Colleagues School System
How do we know it has been learnt?
Assessment Advice
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Assessment

Write down your immediate thoughts when you hear
the word assessment
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Assessment definition

Assessment is the ongoing process of gathering,
analysing and reflecting on evidence to make
informed and consistent judgements to improve
future student learning. http//www.education.
vic.gov.au/studentlearning/assessment/
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Why do we gather and interpret evidence of
learning?

• At classroom level (student, teacher and parent)
• Provide appropriate learning opportunities
• Feedback for future learning
• Develop partnerships
• Modify teaching
• At system level (leadership team and system)
• Evaluate, provide quality assurance certify
• To report to Government

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Assessment Advice

• Assessment is the ongoing process of gathering,
  analysing and reflecting on evidence to make
  informed and consistent judgements to improve
  future student learning.
• Assessment has multiple purposes
• Assessment for learning (formative)
• Assessment as learning (formative)
• Assessment of learning (summative)
• http//www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/as
  sessment/

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Assessment for learning (formative) research

Recent international research on assessment
points to substantial gains in student
achievement that can be affected through the use
of formative assessment in the classroom. Format
ive assessment promotes the goals of life long
learning, including raising levels of student
achievement, greater equity of student outcomes,
and improved learning to learn skills OECD
(2005) Formative Assessment Improving Learning in
Secondary Classrooms, Paris, France OECD
Publishing
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Assessment for learning (formative) definition

Assessment for learning occurs when teachers use
inferences about student progress to inform their
teaching. http//www.education.vic.gov.au/student
learning/assessment/
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Assessment for learning in practice

• Changing planned curriculum when an observation
  is made of a students unexpected level of
  current knowledge, skills and behaviours
• Prior learning
• Scaffolding a students learning after s/he
  demonstrates a misconception in a conversation,
  an essay or on a test
• Sharing criteria so that students understand
  what they are being assessed against and can
  strive to achieve

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Where are we at?
RED - I have little or no understanding AMBER - I
have a partial understanding GREEN Enough
understanding to continue Black Wiliam, Working
Inside the Black Box
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Assessment as learning (formative) research

Formative assessment is most productive when
students are trained in self-assessment so that
they can understand the purposes of their
learning and grasp what they need to do to
achieve. Black, P Wiliam, D (1988) Phi Delta
Kappan. Bloomington Oct 1998. Vol. 80, Iss. 2SSN
/ISBN00317217t
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Assessment as learning (formative) definition

Assessment as learning occurs when students
reflect on and monitor their progress to inform
their future learning goals. http//www.educatio
n.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/assessment/
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Assessment as learning in practice

• Students
• self and peer-assessing
• writing reflections
• developing concept maps of previous and new
  learning
• setting goals
• discussing annotated work with their teachers

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Assessment as learning

• Reflection
• Take a couple of minutes to reflect on what you
  have learnt about assessment so far today, write
  it down
• Identify one thing you would like further
  clarification around or something you would like
  to learn more about
• How could you go about learning more?

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Where are we at?

RED - I have little or no understanding AMBER - I
have a partial understanding GREEN Enough
understanding to continue Black Wiliam, Working
Inside the Black Box
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Assessment of learning (summative) research

The overall message is that summative tests
should become a positive part of the learning
process. Through active involvement in the
testing process, students can see that they can
be the beneficiaries rather than the victims of
testing, because tests can help them improve
their learning. (Phi Delta Kappan. Bloomington S
ep 2004. Vol. 86, Iss. 1  pg. 9)
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Assessment of learning (summative) definition

Assessment of learning occurs when teachers use
evidence of student learning to make judgements
on student achievement against goals and
standards.
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Assessment of learning in practice

• Tests at the end of a unit
• AIM, VCE state-wide exams
• Benchmark reading text levels
• Presentation, e.g. oral or project

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Which assessment approaches do you think are most
effective and powerful?

Assessment for learning occurs when teachers use
inferences about student progress to inform their
teaching
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Which assessment approaches do you think are most
effective and powerful?

Assessment as learning occurs when students
reflect on and monitor their progress to inform
their future learning
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Which assessment approaches do you think are most
effective and powerful?

Assessment of learning occurs when teachers use
evidence of student learning to make judgements
on student achievement against goals and
standards
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Further Assessment information

http//www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/te
achingresources/practice/Pages/assessment.aspx
email studentlearning_at_edumail.vic.gov.au