1. Associate Professor Gavin T L Brown Commonwealth Education Trust Assessment

2. Course 6: Week 1 :Getting to know assessment Lecture 3: The Curriculum-Teaching- Assessment cycle: A framework for integrating assessment with instruction Foundations of Teaching for Learning

3. Curriculum Map: Assessment

4. Cycle of Curriculum, Teach, Assess, Evaluate, Curriculum, Teach Plan TeachTeach M e a s ur e Design Decide

5. Curriculum answers these questions  What is the point of schooling?  What are the goals & objectives of teaching?  What do we want to teach?  Who needs to learn it?  When do they need to learn it?  What materials or resources are needed to teach it?  How do we know if they are learning it? Curriculum Content

6. Cognitive processes or skills  Our ability to THINK The role of technology  Our ability to create and use TOOLS Society and social change  Our reality of living in GROUPS Humanistic concern for individual development,  Our reality of being INDIVIDUALS Academic knowledge or intellectual development  Our ability to record and treasure the PAST Different kinds of Assessment Types of curriculum

7.  Should identify the valuable things we need to teach and test  But testing often means valuing the things that are easy to put on a test  We need to assess the things we value, even if they are hard to assess Curriculum Aligned Assessment

8. Many human attributes assessed  Interests, Personality, Intelligence, Skills, Attitudes, Ability, Knowledge  Knowledge Types Know That; Know How; Know When; Know Why Also quality of machines, processes, systems Major educational focus: LEARNING Content: What can be assessed?

9. Alignment to Curricular Goals  If you want assessment to be aligned to curricular goals, the assessment must be within the curriculum Assessment event, task, item Domain of interest Assessment event, task, item Domain of interest

10. Assessment methods  Observe Behaviour  Observe Performance on Set Task(s)  Oral Question & Answer  Paper & Pencil Questions  Test, Examination  One-off – Collections; On-demand – Prepared Many methods: all strong & weak; but match the GOALS Hairdressing via essays or performance? Methods must match curriculum content

11. Defensible interpretations and decisions based on defensible collection of information about valued content Assessment Defined

12. Course 6: Week 1 :Getting to know assessment Lecture 3: The Curriculum-Teaching- Assessment cycle: A framework for integrating assessment with instruction Foundations of Teaching for Learning

13. Associate Professor Gavin T L Brown Commonwealth Education Trust Assessment