Summary
Contents
Subject index
Assessment is central to teaching and learning, yet is one of the most difficult areas of professional practice. This book guides trainee secondary teachers through its complexities and provides practical strategies, exemplified by case studies. It examines issues such as diagnosing problems, sharing learning objectives, assessment as a tool for motivation, effective planning, using evidence to adapt teaching, peer and self assessment, learning through dialogue and understanding formative assessment. Targeted specifically at trainees, this text links explicitly to the new QTS Standards, and its tasks provide opportunities for reflection and for practising the range of skills involved in assessing pupils.
Why Assess?
Why Assess?
Chapter objectives
By the end of this chapter you should have:
- learned about the background to current assessment practices;
- thought about uses and purposes of assessment;
- begun to formulate your own views on assessment.
Professional Standards for QTS
This chapter will help you to meet the following Professional Standards for QTS:Q7a, Q12, Q26a
Introduction
Good assessment practice is a key feature of effective teaching and learning in schools. This seemingly obvious statement hides a wealth of meanings, subtexts, historical arguments, and views of teaching and learning that may seem bewildering to you situated as you are in the early stages of your teaching career. And yet, on a day-to-day basis, teachers and students are assessing in a multitude of different ways, and building different meanings into these assessment processes. This ...
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