Each education system has a primary focus for assessment. We also have a responsibility to develop a cross-curricular approach to assessment, which includes numeracy and literacy, as well as a wide variety of life skills such as collaboration, information management, higher-order thinking, communication, digital literacy and self organisation, amongst others. Identifying the assessment standards on which to base teaching and learning is the first step of an assessment cycle that leads to the growth of learning and teaching through feedback and reflection.
In this lesson you will design the assessment tools (which help you give feedback on the evidence gathered) that will provide you and the learners with feedback about their mastery of the curriculum objectives and other skills and processes you would like them to develop.
Remember:
- Assessment is a formative and developmental process;
- We should focus our assessment on the specific learning goals of the project;
- We can assess both skills and understanding;
- We should try to assess learning development during the project process as well as the evidence shown in the final product.
- Before you develop your assessment tool, have a look at these three examples and note to what extent each is formative and makes the expectations of the learner clear.
