1. Assessment: What WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE THAT MAKEs THE DIFFERENCE?
Hamilton Secondary College
5th March, 2012
Assessment: What WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE THAT MAKEs THE DIFFERENCE?

2. Scrambled Poem: Making Meaning
1. The sun was in the summer grass, 2. And sat upon his heel, 3. He rolled tobacco in his palm. 4. And with the reins looped through his arm 5. The stockman paused beneath their shade 6. The coolabahs were twisted steel: Clues: The first line is correctly placed. The rhyme pattern is A, B, C, B, D, D.

3. The Stockman
A The sun was in the summer grass B C D

6. 5 Things I Know About... Assessment
1. Assessment is the bridge between teaching and learning.
2. Assessment has a range of purposes:
Assessment of learning
Assessment for learning
Assessment as learning
3. Assessment is (to varying degrees) a collaborative exercise.
4. Assessment requires focused thinking (e.g., reflection and evaluation).
5. Assessment is the key to improvement.

7. The Learning Cycle
Who is doing the reflecting?

8. What I Know Works in Assessment
Diagnostic feedback (peer or teacher) during the formative stage.
Using assessment models to demystify what an “A” or a “B” looks like...
Forming clear understandings of the quality criteria (using rubrics).
Creating a success orientation in the classroom / in the subject.

9. 2012 Improvement Targets Improvement in Writing
What are the assessment implications?
Improvement in “B grades or Better” %
Improvement in SACE “A grades” %

10. Year 8 and 9 Roundtable Assessment
What is it?
Who is involved?
When is it?
How does it work?
How does it involve me?
What needs to happen between now and Week 9, Term II?