Assessment for learning is best described as a process by which assessment information is used by teachers to adjust their teaching strategies, and by students to adjust their learning strategies.
Assessment, teaching and learning are inextricably linked, as each informs the others.
Assessment is a powerful process that can either optimise or inhibit learning, depending on how it’s applied.
Assessment, teaching and learning are inextricably linked, as each informs the others.
Assessment is a powerful process that can either optimise or inhibit learning, depending on how it’s applied.
For teachers
Assessment for learning helps teachers gather information to:
Assessment for learning helps teachers gather information to:
- Plan and modify teaching and learning programmes for individual students, groups of students and the class as a whole
- Pinpoint students’ strengths so that both teachers and students can build on them
- Identify students’ learning needs in a clear and constructive way so they can be addressed
- Involve parents, families and whānau in their children's learning.
- Assessment for learning provides students with information and guidance so they can plan and manage the next steps in their learning.
- Assessment for learning uses information to lead from what has been learned to what needs to be learned next.
Many teachers actually go pale these days when they hear the word, assessment. Test, test, test for data, data, data. But they haven't been given the opportunity to distinguish between assessment OF learning to assessment FOR learning. The Assessments course provides that practical and insightful focus. Assessment should drive instruction in the classroom, not drive teachers and students to distraction.
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