Minishant Primary School Parent Workshop Assessment and Moderation Tuesday 25 th March 2014

1. Minishant Primary School Parent Workshop Assessment and Moderation Tuesday 25thMarch 2014

2. National Context –Building the Curriculum 5: a framework for assessment

3. Principles of Assessment Why we assess? 1. Supporting Learning Sharing learning intentions and success criteria (L.I. and S.C.) High quality interactions and feedback 2. Promoting learner engagement Learner involvement in reflection, learning goals and next steps Peer and self assessment 3. Ensuring Appropriate Support To be fair and inclusive To enable learners to have the best chance of success

4. Types of Assessment Formative Assessment – Assessment for Learning Aims: To monitor learning To provide on-going feedback to improve learning When incorporated into classroom practice, the formative assessment process provides information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are still happening.  The process serves as practice for pupils and a check for understanding during the learning process.  The formative assessment process guides teachers in making decisions about futureinstruction. This process helps pupils identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work.

5. Formative Assessment Observations Questioning Discussions Whiteboard Activities Practice work – active/jotters Quiz Think/Pair/Share Explaining to others Peer/ Self-Assessment Assessment Strategies – Fist to Five

6. Types of Assessment Summative Assessment – Assessment of Learning Aim: To evaluate learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark. Summative assessment demonstrates the extent of a learner's success in meeting the assessment criteria used to gauge the intended learning outcomes of a module or programme, and which contributes to the final mark given for the module. It is normally, though not always, used at the end of a unit of teaching. Summative assessment is used to quantify achievement, to reward achievement, to provide data for selection (to the next stage in education or to employment). For all these reasons the validity and reliability of summative assessment are of the greatest importance.

7. Summative Assessment End of block of learning (2-weeks/ four weeks) End of term assessment – Unseen Multiple choice assessment Essay or Report Presentation Poster Rap NAR paper

8. Support for Planning and Assessment –Second Level – Science

10. Purpose of moderation • Validity and reliability • Professional confidence • Standardisation • Consistency • Pupils‘ progress • Success criteria • Professional skills • Future learning • Success • Next steps

11. National Context –Building the Curriculum 5: a framework for assessment • “a coherent system of quality assurance, moderation and sharing of understanding and best practice to support teachers in achieving greater consistency and confidence in their professional judgments” (p2). • The purpose of moderation is to ensure that the judgments they make about their pupils’ learning is as dependable (i.e. as valid, reliable, consistent and comparable) as possible. • Effective moderation helps to reduce inconsistencies in teacher assessments of pupils’ work and makes judgments more dependable.

12. Any Questions?