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Formative Assessment (AfL) supplies the strategy to support effective teaching, and to make learning deep and sustained. Trainee teachers need to develop confidence in using this method, in order to apply it in their own teaching practice and ensure pupils' learning is deep and sustained.
Introduction
This book focuses on the recognition of the importance of formative assessment in the process of effective teaching and learning and our aim is to build practitioners' understanding and capacity to use formative assessment in that process. Despite the strategies, myths and gimmicks that have been operationalised in its name, formative assessment is a simple concept. To borrow a quotation from Philippe Perrenoud: ‘Any assessment that helps a pupil to learn and develop is formative’ (1991, p. 80). It is important that teachers know and understand how formative assessment helps the child to learn and how feedback from assessment supports that learning process.
In 2005, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued the following Policy Brief (November 2005) which addressed the role of ...
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