Why assess learners? Your reasons.

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Why assess learners? Your reasons

Some Reasons – Torrance and Pryor 1998; Black et al. (2003) Accountability – schools/teachers accountable for their work - tests, progress tracking, performance management, exam results, league tables Secondary Education qualifications- accreditation and access – employers, higher education To advance pupil learning – improvement , feedback, targets for improvement,

Types of Assessment Summative – A of L Formative- AfL Diagnostic – device pupil’s prior knowledge and then adapting (Subject audit/ Year 7 KS2 test) future needs for pupils (individual/class)

Afl Tools– ways of gathering evidence

Formative assessment

What are the in-class assessments Marking exercises Class tests (aural/oral/mental/end of unit/end of term…) Quizzes/Puzzles/Problem Solving/Investigations Open and extended tasks Questioning? Observations

Pupil’s attitude – influences them to getting it right and also how successful they are at learning Some pupils want to coast – get by (Perrenound 1991, p.2) Feedback might discourage them. It needs careful consideration, sensitivity (Hattie and Timperly, 2007) Purposefulness- Not much use on providing feedback ; when a mathematical concept is not fully understood and the teacher’s time would be best spent on modelling and instruction (Didau, 2005)

John Holt How Children Fail ‘petty and contemptible rewards’

Public examinations

Affects of formal assessment- How did you feel? Need to understand the ways assessment can affect learners - pupil attainment and pupil’s attitude towards learning (Nardi and Steward, 2003; Watson 2006)

Dangers - Black et al (2003); Swaffiled 2008; Wiliam 2011 The temptation to assess (what is easy to assess) – rather than learning experiences Teaching to the test Distorting assessment procedures to improve the department/school standing Assessment is not robust: underestimating what pupils are achieving

Assessment without levels

DfE Rationale https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/358070/NC_assessment_quals_factsheet_Sept_update.pdf Podcast Tim Oakes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q5vrBXFpm0&feature=youtu.be

Discuss why LEVELs have gone? Pupil Teacher

Schools that have acted on this http://community.tes.co.uk/national_curriculum_2014/b/assessment_without_levels/default.aspx Trinity (launch, breakthrough, elementary, intermediate, advanced)

Durrington

Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black Inside the black box Youtube (1 81, 18 3 formative assessment) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiu-jY-xaPg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4vA2quoYio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtlLp_ZsyvQ Youtube (Schools network- 16:30-25:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKLo15A80lI&list=PLXWaZHHxbL1NVcSuxnlWhX6p6rZJP793h

References Black, P. et al (2003) Assessment for learning: putting into practice: Open University Press Swaffied, S. (2008) Unlocking assessment: understanding Reflection and Application: London: David Fulton Wiliam, D. (2001) Embedded Formative Assessment: Bloomington. Tree Press