1. Making the Most of Assessment
Outdoor and Environmental Education Centres

2. Effective reviewing can…
Add value to what is already happening
Increase awareness of other perspectives
Develop communication and learning skills
Help learners clarify, achieve and even surpass their objectives
Use success or failure as a source of learning and development
Make benefits tangible and generate useful data for evaluation
Improve prospects for the effective transfer of learning
Greenaway, R. (2007). Dynamic Debriefing

3. Experiential Learning

5. PURPOSE
to establish where learners are in their learning at the time of assessment
Masters 2013

6. PROCESS
gathering evidence that can be used to draw conclusions about where students are in their long-term progress within a learning domain.
Masters 2013

7. An assessment cycle

8. Enriching Outcomes Does the assessment improve student learning?
Are their richer outcomes:
For Centre teachers
For Visiting teachers
For students
For parents

9. Link with Curriculum
Do you have a clear learning intent for the program?
Are their identified learning progressions for students?
Are you assessing what you are teaching?
Does the assessment assist in determining what needs to be taught?

10. Attuned with Pedagogy
Is your assessment method attuned with your pedagogy?
Is the method “seamless” in the teaching of the program?
Does it engage the students?
Does the assessment inform the teaching of the program?

11. In Proportion Where in the program are you assessing?
Is the time, effort and reward in proportion to the length of the program?
Does it suit the age of the students?
Is it able to be repeated and continued?
Is it establishing where the students are in the program learning or a whole unit?