Assessment

=Dylan William - University of London=


 * Raising achievement is important. To raise achievement, you need to improve teacher quality. To improve teacher quality, you need to improve teacher PD.**

Took this from the Ormiston wiki ... thanks, William. Nice correlation with **Viviane Robinson** who says that teachers who participate in teacher larning and development have the greatest effect on student outcomes.



=Chris Le Cren - Leading the development and implementation of school-wide assessment strategies that improve teaching practice and engage students to develop their skills as learners - Learning @ School 24 - 26 February 2010=

The purpose of assessment is to improve teaching and learning. Too often assessment is turning kids off learning. There has been a lack of teacher pd about assessment beyond the NCEA and individual learning areas.

Effective assessment is characterised by: involving learners, benefitting learners, fairness and validity, being suited to purpose, being planned and communicated, by supporting teaching and learning goals.

Ideally, 'all out young people should be educated in ways that develop their capacity to assess their own learning ... they should be able AND motivated to access assessment information about their learning.'

CLC made reference to the Herrmann Whole Brain Processing Model.

Assessment should take into account 21st C Skills of Digital Literacy, High Productivity, Effective Communication, Inventive Thinking and there is close alignment between these skills the Key Competencies of the NZC.

CLC said it is important to have a whole school adoption of a model of thinking like SOLO, etc. For us, it is Bloom's Taxonomy.

** TAKEAWAYS ** Wiggins and McTighe - Backward Design and Six Facets of Understanding.

Assessment @ TKI