Assessment in Schools – Fit For Purpose
Assessment in Schools – Fit For Purpose
A Commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme
MoE editors note: This article is highly relevant to the MoE community as it focuses in depth on the formative nature of teaching for learning and castigates in no uncertain terms policy makers who have hijacked the name of Assessment For Learning without adhering to the spirit of the concept. Mantle of the expert is a formative teaching approach and, although its use in many schools it has impacted successfully on raising student attainment, it is as an achievement ‘enabler’ that it really excels.
Mary Jame’s critique goes very deep into the living tissue of the established and orthodox views of summative assessment as well as identifying the smoke screen AfL now has to operate behind.
Some argue that AfL as a term is dead and a more appropriate concept is ‘TfL’ (Teaching for Learning) where ongoing formative assessment is the pedagogy of discourse and social interaction.
Click here to download “Assessment in Schools – Fit For Purpose” as a pdf
Another significant article on this subect is the one published recently in “Teaching Thinking and Creativity” entitled “Assessment as an Act of Love” – click here to download.
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