In this section you can find useful professional development resources – including articles, webinars, podcast episodes, research and teaching tips and tools – all to help you develop your skills and knowledge of Assessing learning.
What does 'Assessing learning' involve?
This professional practice is about you and your learners' assessment literacy. It includes applying the principles and practice of assessment to design tasks to assess your learners' level and measure their progress, taking into account the assessment systems used in your context and local education policies and practice. It is about using types of assessment (e.g. formative and summative) appropriately, and providing feedback for learning purposes. It involves:
applying the principles and practice of assessment to design appropriate assessment tasks
using formative and summative assessment appropriately at different points in the learning process to monitor and evaluate your learners' understanding, improve their learning outcomes, identify their potential for progression and inform subsequent teaching
defining appropriate assessment criteria and applying assessment criteria consistently
planning for differentiated and inclusive assessment
analysing your learners' errors and helping them to understand their errors through constructive feedback
engaging your learners in self- and peer assessment and developing their self- and peer assessment skills
preparing your learners for formal assessment, including enabling them to manage stress
administering, grading and keeping records of assessment
sharing and explaining assessment results appropriately
analysing and using data about learning, where available, to support the management of learners, improve their learning outcomes, and make curriculum choices
reflecting on the relevance and effectiveness of my assessment of your learners' progress (my assessment literacy).
