Assessment for Productive Learning

Te Kete Ipurangi - Assessment
Provides information about the aspects of assessment, including recent developments, on-going researches, and new tools. There are also links to other organisations and resources.

Classroom Assessment
This course is divided into 2 parts, and each part contains 3 lessons. Part I focus on basic concepts and common assessments types. Part II includes performance assessment, classroom interactions, and attitude surveys. Throughout the lessons, resources and techniques for integrating technology are included.

Institute for Interactive Media & Learning - Assessment
The website provides a range of short guides on each of assessment elements. Each guide presents information and examples of one kind of assessment approach with a short case study.

Assessment Resource Banks
It consists of curriculum-based assessment resources designed for students working at levels 2-5 in New Zealand schools, which include English, Mathematics, and Science.

Tasmanian Department of Education - Assessing
It explains the core elements in assessment and have extensive discussion on several areas, such as Principles and Policies, Outcomes and Standards, Strategies and Practice. A glossary on learning, teaching and assessment is also provided.

Office of Faculty Enhancement, University of North Florida
Provides information on typology of modes of assessment of teaching and learning, lists out the relationship between different forms of assessment and teaching and learning, with brief discussion of formative assessment and summative assessment.

Curriculum Corporation - Assessment for Learning
This site is developed by Curriculum Corporation on behalf of the States, Territories and Commonwealth of Australia. Its aim is to promote the use of assessment for learning.

Learning and Teaching Scotland - Assessment is for Learning programme
Assessment is for Learning (AifL) is a national initiative with representation from all parts of the Scottish education community. Assessment for learning, assessment as learning and assessment of learning are the three main conceptual areas.

Assessment for learning: 10 principles - research-based principles to guide classroom practice, Assessment Reform Group (2002)
Inside the black box: raising standards through classroom assessment, Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam (King’s College London, 1998)
Assessment for learning: beyond the black box, Assessment Reform Group (University of Cambridge School of Education, 1999)
Formative assessment: implications for classroom practice, Bet McCallum (Institute of Education , 2000)
Pupils’ learning from teachers’ responses (AAIA, 2000)
Report on teachers' perception of formative assessment , Ann Neesom (2000)
How am I doing? (Suffolk LEA, 2001)
‘How do they walk on hot sand?’ Using questions to help children learn (Suffolk LEA, 2001)
Gillingham Partnership formative assessment project: interim report on the first term of the project -communicating learning intentions, developing success criteria and pupil self-evaluation, Shirley Clarke, Bet McCallum and Grace Lopez-Charles (2001)
Gillingham Partnership formative assessment project: interim report on the second term of the project - oral feedback and marking against learning intentions, Shirley Clarke and Bet McCallum (2001)
Gillingham Partnership formative assessment project: final report on the third term of the project and final conclusions - third term focus: target setting, Shirley Clarke and Bet McCallum (2001)
Secondary assessment practice: self evaluation and development materials (AAIA, 2002)
Self-assessment (AAIA, 2002)
Quality statement on assessment practice (primary), CEA @ Islington (2003)
Quality statement on assessment practice (secondary), CEA @ Islington (2003)
Designing and timetabling the primary curriculum: a practical guide for key stages 1 and 2 (QCA, 2002)
Designing the key stage 3 curriculum (DfES, 2002)
Good assessment in secondary schools (Ofsted, March 2003)
Guidelines for primary assessment co-ordinators (AAIA, 2000)
Guidelines for secondary assessment coordinators (AAIA, 2000)
Leadership and management: what inspection tells us (Ofsted, 2003)
Excellence and enjoyment: a strategy for primary schools (DfES, 2003)

Curriculum Development Institute - Assessment for Learning
Assessment is one of the important elements in learning, teaching and evaluation. It provides feedback to the teachers and students, and to enhance the basics for learning and teaching. The establishment of this database iprovides supporting materials and services for the above purposes.

IDEAS - Assessment for Learning (AFL)
The Assessment for Learning portal provides a number of jumping off points for incorporating assessment activities and resources that promote deep and persistent learning.

EMB Assessment for Learning
Provides the general ideas on assessment for learning and explain how to implement the framework of school assessment and put it into practices

Norfolk County Council - Assessment for Learning
It contains various resources to support schools in implementing aspects of Assessment for Learning, 29 schools in Norfolk are currently participate in the project.

Formative Assessment in Science Teaching
This project aims to examine how students!| formative assessment experiences affect their learning. In doing so, it will look at how feedback to students can be made more effective by maximising the learning students gain from their assessments.

Higher Education Academy - Assessment of learning
Introduces the project Student Enhanced Learning through Effective Feedback (SENLEF) and the practical tool Managing Effective Student Assessment (MESA). In addition, links to varieties of resources are available.

USC Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET) - Assessment of Teaching & Learning
Site addresses a variety of issues related to student and program assessment, including what may be assessed and how to assess, with a leading discussion on the creation of an assessment philosophy that should be part of any instructor's overall philosophy of teaching.

Assessment of Learning Project at Palomar College
A project with the goal to define and set benchmarks for core skills that are shared, taught and assessed by all disciplines at Palomar College , with information on bibliography and resources about assessment.

A series of meetings for the purposes to promote assessment for learning, which focused on discussion on peer- and self-assessment, together with other related aspects.

Developing formative assessment using ICTs in education
The aim of this project is to develop practical formative assessment strategies to improve students!| learning by using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on undergraduate and higher degree Education courses.

emTech Consulting
EmTech Emerging Technologies constructs this site with a search engine, which includes Over 15,000 resources for teachers, students, and parents. Inside this site, the columns “assessment” and “alternative assessment” provide rich information on assessment.

Introduction to Standards-referenced assessment
This bulletin provides information about the assessment of student progress against specified standards, standards-referenced assessment, the core elements in it and how to put it into practice

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) !V Overview
The Classroom Assessment Techniques(CATs) contains succinct, self-contained, self-instructional, web-based modules that introduce a broadly applicable technique for use in college or university STEM courses. The technique has an extensive history of research to support claims of reliability and validity

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