What’s the idea?
Effective assessments can be powerful tools for enhancing learning and raising attainment. To realise this, we must consciously plan assessments with purpose, reliability, validity and value in mind. This guide offers practical ways for teachers and leaders to apply these principles to make assessment more meaningful.
What does the research say?
Evidence Based Education (2018) proposes “Four Pillars of Assessment” which should be considered as part of assessment design and implementation: Purpose: What function do we want this assessment to serve? Has it been planned in a way which elicits the highest-quality information possible towards the intended end use?
Validity: To what extent does this assessment measure what we intended it to? How relevant and appropriate are the inferences made from the assessment outcomes, towards our purpose?
Reliability: How precise and consistent are the measurements we generate from this assessment? How precise and co
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