“Assessment is for Learning” Three Strands CurriculumLearning & Teaching Assessment ASSESSMENT AS LEARNING Personal learning planning ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING Local Moderation Sharing the standard ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING Formative Assessment Adapted from Learning Unlimited, Scotland
Key things Learned from the UK study tour Scotland, England and Wales are developing e-strategy/ e- portfolio to facilitate student on-going reflection. Clearly move away from just ‘records of achievement’ idea. SLP needs to merge with Big concepts of the reform( Learning to learn, Assessment for/ as learning) Validation and endorsement could be a problem, if SLP is promoted too high-stake. The concept of ‘student telling their own story’ (ie student autonomy/ownership) would be useful here. [shared with M. Galton, M. James, J. MacBeath] Teacher role in SLP is to give comments and facilitate self- regulated learning/ personal learning planning.
Key things Learned from the UK study tour (2) IB/ Middle Year Programme shines some light to the way how school-based OLE could be led in sch. Organization. Groups in cross-curricular themes, disciplines. Community service or the term, ‘Community &Service’; IB took a progressive route: ‘C&S’ then ‘CS’ Collaboration with the same ‘service’ institutions is important Some schools has a simple quality assurance system to monitor service providers which provide ‘OLE’ programmes. The big concept of “Extended School” (extended service to adults, students and communities) DfES
Key Milestones of OLE/SLP Development 1st Prototype of SLP + Users testing (Sept 05) Working Group(s) for SLP and/or OLE within the CDC structure (from Sept 05) Seed Projects start (from Sept 05) Collating survey data (Oct 05) 1 st Draft of OLE/SLP Guidelines in SSCG (Feb 06)
SLP (Suggested Formative process) “Who am I?” Personal & Social reflection Career Pathways Tutorials, Guides (reference and resources) OLE Participation/Achievement Log My Progress (e.g. Target Setting, management) SLP (Summative report, publishing CV) Existing School-based systems (as back-up)