Assessment for Learning (AfL) provides information for both teacher and pupils to progress towards learning goals.
In AfL,
Teachers
- reflect on the purposes of assessment;
- use strategies to assess pupils’ learning;
- plan how pupils will receive feedback, how pupils are involved in assessing their own learning and how they will be helped to progress further.
Learning activities
- incorporates assessments and provides information for future learning plans;
- must show the learning outcomes of the pupils;
- must not be biased;
- have learning goals and criteria used in determining the quality of achievement that must be understood by pupils;
- not only assess pupils’ learning but also encourage deeper learning;
- have assessment integrated in the teaching and learning and not separated from them.
Feedback given to pupils must
- help them improve further;
- motivate them;
- aim at the personal achievement of the standards and not used as a comparision with peers;
- be clear and constructive on the strengths and weaknesses of the individual.
Pupils
- learn to be responsible for their own learning (through the use of self-assessment and peer assessment strategies and the emphasis is on the how to improve further);
- are provided with opportunities for them to strive for their best.
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A very clear and succinct understanding of assessment for learning.
ReplyDeleteOur challenge now is to make these principles our habit when we plan, deliver and review or teaching & learning.
Unless these principles are structure and instructed in our plans (SOW, SIO, lesson plans) the practices these principles will only be uneven at best I or non-existent at worst.
The effort to include these principles into all that we do will take us years of discovery and journeying with learning professionals in a safe, encouraging and enabling community.