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• Learning Intention:
• Teachers will be able to use formative assessment to
enhance the teaching and learning in their classroom
• Success Criteria:
Distinguish between assessment of and for learning
Know the key elements of assessment for learning
Write learning intentions
Suggest activities/tasks to achieve the learning intention
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Reflect on Current Practice
Source: “Putting Assessment for Learning into Practice,” David Spendlove, 2009)
Assessment for Learning (formative) is not an attack
on assessment of learning (summative assessment).
These are complementary approaches - it’s about
getting the balance right.
their learning?
NCCA Assessment Guidelines p9.
Learning Intention
tectonics
Describe the environmental effects of a natural
disaster.
Devising Learning Intentions
• State learning intentions simply and clearly.
• Learning Intentions should be capable of
being validly assessed – a verb should be
used in the statement.
Plan a nutritional menu for two
Measure and Map an area
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Adapted from source: Leahy, S, Lyon, C and Wiliam, D. (Nov.2005) Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day. Educational
Leadership
If the learning intention is free of context it can
illustrate to students that there are many reasons
for learning the concept
Learning Intention What students Learning Intention What students
with Context thought they were without Context thought they were
learning learning now
From Clarke, S. (2005) Formative Assessment in Action: Weaving the elelments together
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Workshop Activity
Use the subject-based statements on the worksheet
to:
1. Write a clear learning intention
2. Identify a context of learning
(task/activity/teaching approach etc.)
Learning Outcome Context of Learning
Identify and explain the The effects of smoking
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respiratory system
Success Criteria
Success Criteria suggest ways to achieve a learning
intention.
“How will I know when I have learned?”
“How will I know when I have achieved the learning
intention?”
• Attitude to self/others
• Occupation
• How others respond to the character.....
Stems for Writing Success Criteria
What I expect from
What I am looking for everyone is…
Why does…..? is…
To produce a good…
What if….?
To be successful what do you need to What do we already
do? know that would
you…
How would you….? help…?
(achievement, improvement)
• I am so pleased with your essay;
(appropriateness, achievement)
Feedback vs Advice
• Feedback must be linked to the learning
intention and success criteria as well as
moving the learning forward, otherwise it
tends to become either a judgement or
advice.
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Activity
• Organise all the comments into categories of
Descriptive Feedback and Evaluative/Advice
Descriptive Evaluative Advice
example- can work with all students but especially the less
able: “Choose one of these or create your own: ‘He is a good friend
because he never says unkind things.’; ‘He is a friend because he never
tells lies.’
Adapted from NCCA
• Ongoing!!
Feedback only works formatively if the
student has opportunity to improve to better
achieve the learning outcome. In summative
assessment the feedback is too late.
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Effective Feedback Techniques
• Three Questions:
asking the students to reflect
on their work and move it forward