Assessment: getting the measure of what recent commentators have said
Written By: Author(s): Lisa Pettifer
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This article takes teachers through a range of works from a new ‘generation’ of education authors. Most of the authors referenced are teachers or former teachers, academics focusing on assessment, or working parties set up by recent governments to investigate assessment practice, schools’ needs in assessment or teacher development relating to understanding of assessment.
Are we nearly there yet?
Our understanding of what assessment is, how it should be done, how doing it should be learned and how we know when we’ve done it well is still somewhat troubled, but we seem to be getting closer to our destination.
According to Dylan Wiliam, assessment is, among other things, ‘evidence about learning’ (as referenced in Didau p.277), and ‘a procedure for drawing conclusions’ (Twitter 25/03/2018) – both of these pointing to the interrogative, dynamic and iterative natures of the many processes involved.
Assessment is one of the most crucial aspects of our work as teache
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This article was published in November 2018 and reflects the terminology and understanding of research and evidence in use at the time. Some terms and conclusions may no longer align with current standards. We encourage readers to approach the content with an understanding of this context.
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