Assessment for Learning

"If assessment is to be a positive force in education, it must be implemented properly. It cannot be used to merely sort students or to criticise. Its goals must be to improve education." (Lockwood & McLean). This workshop examines reliable, easily planned alternatives to the culture of ‘test, test, test’ without creating more work.

Who would benefit

Teachers of Grades K – 12, Senior Staff, Heads of Faculty, School or Department, Principals, Counsellors

Programme content

Depending on length, participants could:

• Decide what effective assessment looks and sounds like
• Learn how Assessment for Learning is different from Assessment of Learning
• Examine how Assessment for Learning strategies can enable students, increase motivation, engage learners of all abilities, lead to higher achievement, improve relationships and increase teacher satisfaction
• Devise assessment tasks based on AfL principles suitable for classroom use

Course duration

Half or Full day

Note:  This course can be extended to include a session for

• Parents on the advantages of AfL techniques for enhancing the learning, achievement and enjoyment of their children.
• Individual teachers or teams of teachers in one subject specialty in planning and following through an actual AfL task with a group of students.