1. Why assess learners?
Your reasons

2. 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,

3. 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)

4. Afl Tools– ways of gathering evidence

7. Formative assessment

9. 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

10. 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)

11. John Holt
How Children Fail
‘petty and contemptible rewards’

12. Public examinations

13. 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)

14. 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

15. Assessment without levels

16. DfE Rationale
Podcast Tim Oakes

17. Discuss why LEVELs have gone?
Pupil Teacher

18. Schools that have acted on this
Trinity (launch, breakthrough, elementary, intermediate, advanced)

19. Durrington

20. Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black
Inside the black box
Youtube (1 81, 18 3 formative assessment)
Youtube (Schools network- 16:30-25:00)

23. 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