1. WMR Ultranet Team Blueprint for Government Schools Flagship Strategy 1 Student Learning Initiative Assessment FOR Learning

2. WMR Ultranet Team OUR EDUCATIVE PURPOSE What is powerful to learn? Victorian Essential Learning Standards What is powerful learning and what promotes it? Principles of Learning and Teaching LEARNER How do we know it has been learnt? Assessment Advice

3. WMR Ultranet Team Assessment FOR learning Assessment AS Learning Assessment OF learning Assessment Professional Learning Assessment FOR Learning

4. WMR Ultranet Team How do we know what the students need to learn and if it has been learnt? Assessment is the process of gathering and analysing evidence to make informed judgements about how well students are progressing in their learning. Purposes of assessment Assessment for learning Assessment as learning Assessment of learning

5. WMR Ultranet Team Assessment FOR learning: occurs when teachers use inferences about student progress to inform their teaching. Assessment OF learning: occurs when teachers use evidence of student learning to make judgements on student achievement against goals and standards. Assessment AS learning: occurs when students reflect on and monitor their progress to inform their future learning goals.

6. WMR Ultranet Team Assessment FOR learning: …is frequent, formal or informal (e.g. quality questioning, anecdotal notes, written comments), embedded in teaching and provides clear and timely feedback that helps students in their learning progression. It has a summative use, providing evidence that informs, or shapes, short term planning for learning.

7. WMR Ultranet Team Assessment FOR learning makes a significant difference to … [students] progress - in their ability to be confident, critical learners, to achieve more than ever before and in raising their self-esteem. In a world of continuing pressure, it is good to know that we are making a real difference… (Shirley Clarke 2001, p. 139)

8. WMR Ultranet Team The most important purpose of classroom assessment is to improve student learning. The learner is at the centre.

9. WMR Ultranet Team The Teachers Role is to: make arrangements to gain evidence on students learning progression provide timely feedback to promote the development of metacognitive skills inform & modify the learning and teaching program in light of the assessment evidence

10. WMR Ultranet Team Using available evidence FOR learning What evidence (data) is available to you about students learning? What is accessible and useable? How can you select the best evidence to use to prepare your teaching plans FOR the purpose of improving students learning?

11. WMR Ultranet Team Group Task 1 In your group brainstorm which strategies and sources you use to gain evidence on students learning: –before new learning starts –during the learning process –formal –informal

12. WMR Ultranet Team Gaining evidence FOR learning can happen in these four ways: InformalFormal Before new learning starts During learning process

13. WMR Ultranet Team InformalFormal Before new learning starts asking questions, brainstorming (informal diagnostic) During learning process Gaining evidence FOR learning can happen in these four ways:

14. WMR Ultranet Team InformalFormal Before new learning starts asking questions, brainstorming (informal diagnostic) Standardised test, quick quiz eg. Torch & DART (formal diagnostic) During learning process Gaining evidence FOR learning can happen in these four ways:

15. WMR Ultranet Team InformalFormal Before new learning starts asking questions, brainstorming (informal diagnostic) Standardised test, quick quiz eg. Torch & DART (formal diagnostic) During learning process Observe and record student actions and learning progression (informal formative) Gaining evidence FOR learning can happen in these four ways:

16. WMR Ultranet Team InformalFormal Before new learning starts asking questions, brainstorming (informal diagnostic) Standardised test, quick quiz eg. Torch & DART (formal diagnostic) During learning process Observe and record student actions and learning progression (informal formative) read and give feedback (formal formative) Bloggs Wiki iPod Mind mapping. Eg Inspiration, Mind Manager, bubbl.us… Video, Webcams Gaining evidence FOR learning can happen in these four ways: and many more… Online conferencing. Eg: MSN, CUCMe, Skype, Communicator, …

17. WMR Ultranet Team Group Task 2 In your group brainstorm means in which you provide feedback to students

18. WMR Ultranet Team Means of giving feedback to students Have a conversation (formal or informal) about the students work. Give written feedback - this can be detailed and focused on what the student can do to improve. Talk with students about your analysis of their individual learning progression against the Standards at an interim point (i.e. not at the end).

19. WMR Ultranet Team A checklist for good feedback … 1.clear and unambiguous; 2.specific; 3.supportive, formative and developmental; 4.timely; 5.understood; 6.delivered in an appropriate environment (Jonathan Tummons, 2005, p. 76).

20. WMR Ultranet Team Student work sample…

21. WMR Ultranet Team Assessment AS Learning Assessment OF learning Gaining evidence to plan teaching & giving feedback is Assessment FOR learning

22. WMR Ultranet Team Thank you