Assessment Essentials – HARNESSING THE POWER OF ASSESSMENT

Self and Peer Assessment: Empowering Learners

“Getting children to reflect on progress themselves, to climb to the ‘high ground’ from which they can survey their own

July 18, 2019 Assessment Essentials / Descriptive Feedback

Feedback that moves learning forward

Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement, but this impact can be either positive or

March 12, 2019 Assessment Essentials / Assessment Loop / Descriptive Feedback

Descriptive Feedback: The Engine that Powers Learning

Feedback should help the student understand more about the learning goal, more about their own achievement status in relation to

October 2, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Assessment Loop / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: A Dynamic, Ongoing Process (Part 4)

As a learning community, students uncover possible success criteria, giving an educator the opportunity to listen deeply, assessing what students already know and understand.

September 30, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Assessment Loop / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: Modelling Criteria (Part 2)

“…the more students interact with the criteria, the more they are able to internalize look-fors and apply them when assessing the quality of their work or performance.” (Nicol, Macfarlane-Dick, 2006)

September 29, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of Success Criteria: Introduction (Part 1)

When you read the title of this post, did it affirm your thinking or did it evoke a sense of questioning…’But how do I do that?’

September 21, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Assessment Loop / Learning Goals and Success Criteria

Collaboratively Developing Students’ Understanding of the Learning Goals (Part 1)

You’ve heard the phrase making thinking visible. Observing, listening to and conversing with students about their meaning-making is essential. But, in order to do this effectively, what needs to be in place?

September 13, 2018 Assessment Essentials / Learning Goals and Success Criteria / Planning

Learning Goals and Success Criteria: How to Craft Them

It’s tempting to pick an expectation and to ‘turn it into a learning goal’. However, if we’re going to invite students to be active in their learning (to own it!), we need to go beyond telling them what the goal of ‘today’s lesson’ is.