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The purpose of
this activity is for you to become aware of, and start thinking
about, the assessment strategies you are currently using.
As a practising teacher you have already established your
own way of doing things to meet the demands of your teaching
situation. This also applies to assessment strategies. You
may already be doing assessment in a way which is working
reasonably well for you, but how well is it working to enhance
learning?
This activity will
not prescribe certain assessment strategies as 'right' or 'wrong'. Rather, you
need to become aware of what you are doing so that you can think about how effective
your assessment is. As you work through the module, you may find that there are
other ways of assessing that can enrich your teaching. The first step, however,
is to reflect on your current assessment practice.
While doing this
activity, you can build some basic understanding about assessment
terminology. In the long run the terminology is not all that important - it
is far more important to be implementing good assessment practice, but let's
examine some of the main elements of an assessment.
In order to assess
something, even if it is a self-assessment, you need to decide on two things
- what are the outcomes that you want to
assess and how will you find the evidence to prove
what has been achieved? - this will determine the assessment
technique or method
- what are the tools that you will use
to gather this evidence and perform the actual assessment?
The assessment tools always contain
the criteria that you want to measure in some way.
In this activity
we have decided on a self-assessment method, using a questionnaire
as the assessment tool. In this questionnaire you will see
that the questions indirectly refer to many different types
of assessment practice.
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Module Outline
